Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall
Illustrator: none
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Historical Fiction about Family.
Theme: Dealing with loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.
Primary and secondary characters: Sarah, Jacob, Anna and Caleb.
Award(s) date of publication: Newbery Award and Scott O'Dell Award, 1986
Publishing Company: Harper Collins
Brief Summary and how I would use this book with students: This book is about a man by the name of Jacob Witting who becomes a single parent after his wife dies while give birth to their child. The book focuses on his loneliness and his search for a new wife. He posts a newspaper ad looking for a new wife. A lady by the name of Sarah answers the ad and becomes Jacob's new wife. The book goes on to explain what they have to go through to become a family, through the good and the bad times. The children have a hard time adjusting to the change and this causes one of the many struggles in the book. This book could be used in the classroom when talking about the idea of change. Although the book could also help with children who have lost a parent, in the general educational environment the idea of change is much more relevant. Children have to deal with change all the time and a book dealing with one overcoming and dealing with change can be very beneficial to a young reader.
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