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toad_maiden 's review for:
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Certainly not my first reading of this book, but it never fails to hit me in the gut. This is probably the least flashy Newbery ever awarded, frankly. The story is simple and straightforward, filled with finely wrought emotion--grief, homesickness, hope, fondness, admiration--and the characters are lovable and memorable, if rather one-dimensional. MacLachlan's skill is in the recording of details that are both specific and universal in the way that we humans love. Always a pleasure to revisit this one.