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A tender children's classic set in the 19th-century prairie, exploring family, loss, and love through Sarah's arrival.
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A tender children's classic set in the 19th-century prairie, exploring family, loss, and love through Sarah's arrival.
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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 c...
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