Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: love, places
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1994-05-30
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0060210982
ISBN-13: 9780060210984

Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, "learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ’All the places to love are here . . . no matter where you may live.’ This loving book will be something to treasure."’BL. "The quiet narrative is so intensely felt it commands attention. . . . a lyrical celebration."’K. 1995 Teachers’ Choices (IRA)1995 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)Notable 1995 Children’s Trade Books in Social Studies (N

Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: journey
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0440408091
ISBN-13: 9780440408093

Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma’s albums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, th

Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: books, picture, trophy, first
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-03-31
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0064434923
ISBN-13: 9780064434928

‘A child comes to terms with the fact that she and her family are leaving the prairie. . . . As she talks herself into acceptance, her Mama helps her let go, commenting that the baby will need someone to tell him where he came from. So the girl gathers mementoes—a bag of earth and a piece of cottonwood tree. . . .A novel hides in these few pages. As with Sarah, Plain and Tall, the subext vibrates. So much is told in each perfectly chosen phrase. The story is deep and specific, but the pain and denial of a child leaving a known and loved place is all too universal. Moser’s finely-wrought

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: Scholastic
Keywords: plain, sarah
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-04
List price: $1.00
ISBN-10: 0590974092
ISBN-13: 9780590974097

Special Edition: Includes an aftwerword to you from Patricia MacLachlan. Dimensions: 5 1/4" x 7 5/8"

Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: books, rainbow, reading, eyes, grandpa
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1900-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0064430413
ISBN-13: 9780064430418

On John’s visits to Grandpa’s house, his blind grandfather shares with him the special way he sees and moves in the world.

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: plain, sarah
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1987-09-04
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0064402053
ISBN-13: 9780064402057

"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too."Their mother died 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 Sara Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Ana, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings.Sarah desides to come for a month. She writes Papa: 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?

Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: plain, sarah, skylark
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1997-01-30
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0064406229
ISBN-13: 9780064406222

My mother, Sarah, doesn’t love the prairie. She tries, but she can’t helpremembering what she knew first.Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. so Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Pap