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2003

Format:	Book
Author:	Sorensen, Virginia, 1912-1991, author.
Title:	Miracles on Maple Hill / Virginia Sorensen ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush.
Edition:	First Harcourt young classics edition.
Publisher, Date:	Orlando, Florida : Harcourt, 2003. ©2003
Description:	232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Publication Year:	2003
Summary:	Overview: The war is over and Marly's father is home -- but he's not the same. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins to rise, the leaves start to turn, and maybe, just maybe, Marly's father will begin to bloom again, like the world around them. Winner of the Newbery Medal, this wise and moving classic is a story of children and parents and the miracles of nature.
Target Audience Note:	Interest age level : Ages 8-12. Lexile: 750.
Subjects:	1900-1999 Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction. Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile fiction. Moving, Household -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction. Country life -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction. Country life. Dysfunctional families. Moving, Household. Moving -- Fiction. Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction. Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Pennsylvania.
Genre:	Paper case bindings. Book jackets. Historical fiction. Fiction. History. Juvenile works. Fiction.
Other Author:	Krush, Beth, illustrator. Krush, Joe, illustrator.
Notes:	"An Odyssey/Harcourt young classic." Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 7.0 59. Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 7.0 59. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.9 7.0 59. Newbery Medal, 1957.
Contents:	There's all outdoors -- Meet Mr Chris -- Maple Hill -- First miracle -- Pancakes -- Journey for Meadow Boots -- Foxes -- Harry the Hermit -- Big decision -- Joe does a Christmas thing -- Beginning again -- No more drumsticks? -- Annie-get-your-gun -- Mr Chris gets a taste.
LCCN:	2003049939
ISBN:	0152047190 9780152047191 0152047182 9780152047184 9780812427806 0812427807
Other Number:	52347532
Current Holds:	0
Local Availability:	1 (of 1)
System Availability:	5 (of 5)
Control Number:	2010962

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Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to Grandma's old farmhouse on Maple Hill. A Newbery Medal book. Simultaneous. - (Baker & Taylor)

After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other. - (Baker & Taylor)

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

- (Harcourt Publishing)

1957 Newbery Medal Winner

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

- (Houghton)

Virginia Sorensen's Newbery Medal-winning classic, in an irresistible new package.

- (Houghton)

Author Biography

VIRGINIA SORENSEN (1912-1991) was born in Utah. Her great-grandfathers came to Utah in covered wagons on Brigham Young's great trek of 1846, and it was their stories that influenced her early novels of the American West. Ms. Sorensen traveled extensively, and all of her books are set in places where she lived.

- (Houghton)

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Horn Book Guide Reviews

In this reissue of a Newbery award winner, Marly's father has returned from World War II with what would now be diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder. The story is a little too tidy, dealing with the healing power the family experiences at the mother's old farm, but Marly is a complicated, interesting child, and her conflicted feelings about her father are honestly drawn. Copyright 2004 Horn Book Guide Reviews.

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