  | Sarah, plain and tall Author: MacLachlan, Patricia | |
| Price: $21.88 | ||
Summary:
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come to live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by her and hope that she will stay.
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| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 3.40 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 137 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 3-5 Reading Level: 4.20 Points: 3.0 Quiz: 10009 | |
Awards:
Newbery Medal, 1986
Common Core Standards
CC Maps Recommended Works Gde K-5
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 3 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 3.RF Phonics & Word Recognition
Grade 3 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 3.RF Fluency
Grade 3 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Craft & Structure
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Phonics & Word Recognition
Grade 4 → Reading → RF Foundational Skills → 4.RF Fluency
Grade 4 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 5 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang
Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews
School Library Journal (+)
Booklist (+)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 05/01/1985 *Starred Review* A near-perfect miniature novel that fulfills the ideal of different levels of meaning for children and adults. Two children, motherless since the younger one’s birth, are waiting on the prairie for the arrival of their possible new stepmother, who has answered their father’s newspaper advertisement for a wife. Their loneliness and hope are tangibly detailed in expectant preparations for her arrival, among them, several letters, both homely and funny, that are exchanged between the family and Sarah (“I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall”). The simplicity of plot, style, and characterization is deceptive. Sarah proves not only plain and tall but also kind and good, coming like water to three people thirsty for someone caring. Yet Sarah misses her Maine coast, and there are uncomfortable tensions between the children’s well-meaning father and his strong-willed bride-to-be. The dialogue is natural, varied but always vivid, ranging from scenes of soft singing to a romp in the cow pond to a raging storm. When Sarah comes back from town, a trip that the children fear signals her permanent departure, the reader is as deeply moved to happiness as the family itself. “Soon there will be a wedding. Papa says that when the preacher asks if he will have Sarah for his wife he will answer, ‘Ayuh.’” Poignant but never sentimental, this is a worthy successor to Wilder’s Little House books and a prime choice for reading aloud. - Copyright 1985 Booklist.
