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by Virginia Sorensen

Author:

Virginia Sorensen

ISBN13:

978-0606287715

ISBN:

060628771X

Language:

English

Publisher:

Demco Media (August 1, 2003)

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For Kids

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Growing Up & Facts of Life

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VIRGINIA SORENSEN (1912-1991) was born in Utah, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels . In my ongoing attempt to read all the newberry medal books I found Miracles on Maple Hill to be a very good book.

VIRGINIA SORENSEN (1912-1991) was born in Utah, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West. This book won the newberry in 1957, and tells the story of a family that moves to the Pennsylvania country to live a more simplistic life away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. The story is very straightforward and easy to read.

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Miracles on Maple Hill book. VIRGINIA SORENSEN (1912-1991) was born in Utah, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West. Books by Virginia Sorensen. Written by Virginia Sorensen and illustrated by Beth Krush, Joe Krush. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A Newbery Medal book. Topics in Miracles on Maple Hill.

Miracles on Maple Hill is a 1956 novel by Virginia Sorensen that won the 1957 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. The book was illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush. The settings and characters for the book were inspired by real people and locations the author encountered during her stay in Edinboro, Pennsylvania between 1952-1958. Marly's family moves to the country so that her father, a former prisoner of war, can learn to function once more.

Joe Does a Christmas Thing You would think Maple Mountain was on fire. In every direction the trees were red and yellow. was almost more than Marly could bear. The redness seemed to come from inside each tree in a wonderful way; it was the red she saw through her hand when she held it against the sun. The yellowness glistened like golden hair, and the wind shook it, and bits of gold spun down upon the grass

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Download books for free. Download (pdf, 431 Kb) Donate Read. Epub FB2 mobi txt RTF. com User, January 21, 2007. Miracles on Maple Hill is about a family who moves to their grandmother's house on Maple Hill and there are changes that appear in everyone. The father is more easy-going

Miracles on Maple Hill. ISBN 0590431455 - This Newbery Award Winner managed to pull off one of the most difficult things in kids' books - possibly in any genre. It is almost completely timeless. The father is more easy-going. The mother is happier because her husband isn't morose anymore.

Title: Miracles on Maple Hill By: Virgina Sorensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Vendor: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 2003. Dimensions: . X . (inches) ISBN: 0152047182 ISBN-13: 9780152047184 Ages: 8-12 Stock No: WW047184. Author Bio. ▼▲.

She was the author of the 1957 John Newbery Medal winning Miracles on Maple Hill, based in the Erie, Pennsylvania region where she lived at the time. The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the.

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.

Whilingudw

Perhaps because I read "understood Betsy" first, which is also the story of a fish out of water, or rather a city girl in the country, leaning to do all the things that people had to do, to live off the land. And although they were written about fifty years apart, Miracles seems to be less relevant and out of date than Understood Betsy.

I think the problem stems from how each girl approached thing. Betsy would do what had to be done while Marly would say things like she was a girl so couldn't. Her brother Joe kept having all the adventures and the reader would hear about them second hand.

It is a Newberry award winner in 1957. So there is that. And you can read that with that in mind. But if you have a choice I would read Understood Betsy.

Early Waffle

very sweet book. it was an escape for the mind reading this book being transported to a maple sugar farm and seeing the dad transform and become happy again. I wish I could have had a similar experience as a child. Nature is good for people's souls.

Cobandis

In my ongoing attempt to read all the newberry medal books I found Miracles on Maple Hill to be a very good book. This book won the newberry in 1957, and tells the story of a family that moves to the Pennsylvania country to live a more simplistic life away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. The story is very straightforward and easy to read. I really liked all the characters in the book, especially the children. Marley the young daughter in the book was my favorite, and I felt like the author wrote the story for a child Marley's age to read (about 5th grade).

One of the things that I found interesting about reading the older newberry books is that you can see how the author dealt with serious issues within the timeline of that moment in history. For example, in this book it never completly comes out and says that the father in this book was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from WWII, but the signs are left everywhere for the reader to pick up on. I wish that that the author had developed more of the stories relationships with the adults in the book, but I have to remind myself that this book is written with children not adults in mind.

I gave the book a fourth star because I loved the air of nostalgia that the book left me with. The way she describes the winters on Maple Hill and especially the springs with the syrup left me wanting to linger at the syrup camps of that time and smell the sweet aroma of the sap cooking over a fire. This is a great book from a different time, that lets a little insight into the struggles of the post-WWII family and how they dealt with them.

Hrguig

This brings current readers back in time, and older readers to their childhood. You've got to love the characters!! They just draw you into the story.

Kalrajas

Nice book

Thundershaper

Every month there is a miracle. Read it to appreciate our own regular miracles. Loved it enough to send a copy to each of my children.

Quellik

Wonderful read--one of my favorite books from childhood, and it has not lost its charm. Back in the day, a book in which the father had been a POW and was (clearly to our eyes now) suffering from PTSD was an unusual "problem" to encounter in a children's book. I remember envying Marly her chance to go to that little country schoolhouse--my "dream" school in those days. A proto-back-to-the-land plot, without all of the messy baggage of the back-to-the-land folks in later decades. And the message of neighborly support and cooperation appealed to me than, as it still does.

I'm in my 30's and just read this book for the first time. A classic, young or old. It will warm your heart and make you want to make maple syrup!

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