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  • Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #1)

Sarah, Plain and Tall
(Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #1)

Author
Patricia MacLachlan
Publication Date
May 19, 1985
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #1)
Description

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?

This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tallgently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.

Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance.

 

Publication date
May 19, 1985
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780060241018
Lexile Measure
660
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
HarperCollins
Series
Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga
BISAC categories
JUV007000 - Juvenile Fiction | Classics
JUV039090 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
JUV013080 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Blended Families
Library of Congress categories
Frontier and pioneer life
Stepmothers
Witting family (Fictitious characters)
Mail order brides
Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan (1938-2022) was the award-winning author of many novels for children, including the Newbery Medal and Scott O'Dell Award-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall, which was adapted into a Hallmark television movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken. She co-wrote the teleplay for the film as well as for two sequels, Skylark and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, based on her novels.

Honored with a Christopher Award and a National Humanities Medal among many others, MacLachlan was also the author of Baby, Waiting for the Magic, The Truth of Me, and the picture books Someone Like Me (illustrated by Chris Sheban), and The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse (illustrated by Hadley Hooper).

Chris Sheban has been awarded three gold and three silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. Some of the books he has illustrated are I Met a Dinosaur by Jan Wahl, Catching the Moon by Myla Goldberg, and What To Do With a Box by Jane Yolen. Someone Like Me is his first book with Roaring Brook Press.

Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction
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Winner 1986 - 1986
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Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #2)
Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #3)
More Perfect Than the Moon (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #4)
Grandfather's Dance (Sarah, Plain and Tall Saga #5)