New Releases by Virginia Sorensen

The winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal is reissued. When Marly''s father comes back from the war a different man, the family moves to Grandma''s old house on Maple Hill, where miracles begin to happen. Illustrations.

As one of the Amish, Esther feels she sticks out in her plain clothes at public school. She''s terrified she may do what her brother did: run away and join the outside world. Illustrations.

The narrator of these stories is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and telling them from a child''s perspective. The stories often attempt to understand the values of the writer''s community and depend on the reader''s ability to recognize the ironic distance between the child''s perception and the meaning of the incidents to the narrator. Two of these stories were originally published in The New Yorker.

Cathy is not looking forward to the family''s tour of duty in Morocco. Then she finds a wonderful friend.

Summary: A black boy''s mother forbids him to associate with the neighbors whom she considers "poor white squatters," but when she unexpectedly begins labor, a number of misunderstandings are righted.

Eleven-year-old Lotte wonders how she can ever leave Denmark and go to live in America with her mother and her new stepfather.

Omdat de vader tot rust moet komen, vertrekt een stadsgezin naar een huis van familie op het platteland, waar ze de onder andere meehelpen met de productie van suikerstroop.

A little girl''s fault of asking questions leads to the establishment of a bookmobile service in the country. Grades 4-6.

Story of two ardently individualistic people on the western plains of Utah: the daughter of Scottish-Irish immigrants and Peter Jansen, who loves her.

Depicts the deep love of a Mormon married couple.