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When Caleb is born, his mother dies. Caleb’s sister, Anna, is angry with Caleb for causing the death of their mother, but she also loves Caleb.
The whole story of Sarah, Plain and Tall, is filled with beautiful conflicts like these. When Sarah arrives to answer the ad placed by Anna’s father for a mother for Anna and Caleb, Anna is torn. She loved her mother and she loves Sarah. Is that wrong? Sarah, we discover, loved the ocean, but she is now to live in a world with no ocean, a world covered w ...more
The whole story of Sarah, Plain and Tall, is filled with beautiful conflicts like these. When Sarah arrives to answer the ad placed by Anna’s father for a mother for Anna and Caleb, Anna is torn. She loved her mother and she loves Sarah. Is that wrong? Sarah, we discover, loved the ocean, but she is now to live in a world with no ocean, a world covered w ...more
I would probably give this quick read 3.5 stars. The mail-order bride/mommy idea seems a little creepy to me. And the family falls together just so nice and neat and quickly. That would never happen in today's reality. But read from the narrator's perspective (Anna, a young girl who just wants her family to be happy again following the loss of her mother) it is a sweet story.
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I loved this book. I read it for a challenge at my school - we were challenged to read some Newbery winners, and I had never read this one.
Didn't realize this was a Scott O'Dell winner when I read it. Need to read it again... Don't remember much about it.
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it was amazing
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