Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Sarah, Plain and Tall

a novel by Patricia MacLachlan

Anna and Caleb live with their father on the wide prairie, aching for the mother they lost. When Papa places an advertisement for a wife, Sarah Wheaton answers from her home by the sea in Maine and comes for a one-month trial — bringing sea shells, her cat Seal, and a deep love of the ocean. This gentle, Newbery Medal–winning story asks whether a woman who loves the sea can make the prairie, and this family, her home. Each Part workbook has vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing, plus prairie history and science background lessons.

Level 1Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

Level 1 · Growing ReadersUS Grades 1–3Lexile 380–970LAR 2.9–5.6

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Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🌾 Prairie Life & the Natural World

Homesteads, weather, wildflowers and open sky — the real world Anna and Caleb farm.

SUPPORTING

🚦 Frontier & Homestead History

Free land, sod houses and a wife found by letter — how the American West was settled.

SUPPORTING

🌊 The Sea & the Maine Coast

Tides, seals and salt air — the ocean home Sarah leaves behind and misses.

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