num_pages: 58
description: "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 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?
language: English
title: Sarah Plain and Tall
titlecomplete: Sarah Plain and Tall
genres: Classics, Historical, Chapter Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 84577
series: Sarah, Plain and Tall
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Scott O'Dell Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Boekenleeuw, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature
publisher: Trumpet Club