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1986 Newbery Medal Winner 1986 Scott O'Dell Award Winner Anna and Caleb live on a farm on the prairie with their father, Jacob. They miss their mother terribly, who died when Caleb was born. When Jacob puts out an ad for a new wife and mother for the two children, Sarah, a woman from coastal Maine, answers. Sarah agrees to travel to them and stay for a month, after which she'll decide if she wants to try to fill the space that their mother left behind. MacLachlan's prose is simple, but powerfully descriptive. Children will identify with Anna and Caleb's feelings of loneliness, wanting to be loved, and the excitement at the possibility of having a happy family once again. On another level, parents, or anyone who has lost someone and wondered if they could love again, will be able to identify with Jacob in this short, but poignant novel.