Patricia MacLachlan

Skylark Patricia MacLachlan

My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help Remembering what she knew first. Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Papa ever be a family again? Patricia MacLachlan is the author of many beloved novels for young readers including: Arthur, For the Very First Time, winner of the Golden Kite Award for Fiction; The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt; and Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal, as well as its sequels, Skylark and Caleb's Story. She is also the author of picture books including Three Names, All the Places to Love, What You Know First, and Painting the Wind, which she coauthored with her daughter, Emily. Glenn Close has received five Oscar nominations, three TonyAwards (out of four nominations), one Emmy Award and three Grammy nominations. Her remarkably varied work includes the feature films The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, and 101 Dalmatians. She also starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie Sarah, Plain and Tall and the Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard