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Format:
Book
Title:
Sarah, plain and tall
ISBN:
9780062399526

9781484427545

9781489861764

9780606372473
Edition:
Revised paperback edition, 30th anniversary edition.
Publication:
New York, NY : A Charlotte Zolotow Book, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Physical Description:
67, 25, 4 pages ; 20 cm
General Note:
"30th anniversary edition, Newbery speech & more."--Cover.
Summary:
"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder: Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay? - Back cover.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Reading Level:
006-010.
Program Information:
3.0. Reading Counts RC 4.2.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.4 1.0 137.
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