Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 58 pages
When a man living on the frontier sends away for a mail-order bride, his children, Anna and Caleb, find themselves wishing desperately that she'll stay.
I never read Sarah, Plain and Tall when I was younger, and I'm retroactively upset I didn't. This is precisely the type of story I would have absolutely fallen in love with. It is short but echoes some of my favorite sentiments from the Anne of Green Gables or Little House series. Reading it for the first time as an adult gave me insight into Sarah's wistfulness and gave the book a lovely yearning dynamic. I loved it.
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