Patricia MacLachlanChildren's Books · Fiction·b. 1938
Sarah, plain and tall
Synopsis
Set on the late-19th-century prairie, widowed farmer Jacob Witting places a newspaper advertisement for a wife, and Sarah Wheaton, a plainspoken woman from the coast of Maine, answers it. She travels west for a trial month with Jacob and his children, Anna and Caleb, who fear she will find the flat, dry farmland unbearable after a life by the sea. As Sarah teaches the children to swim and helps mend the roof before a storm, the family waits to see whether she will choose to stay.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (1)
Death Of A Parent