Most Popular Books 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.

Romance set in Denmark in 1850 and the story of the forces that impelled great numbers of Scandinavians to leave the Old World for a promised land in Mormon Utah.

A celebration of Sorensen''s Mormon childhood in Utah, the narrator of each story is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and narrating events from the child''s perspective. The stories are often about the child''s attempt to understand the values of her community.

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.

Depicts the deep love of a Mormon married couple.

Set immediately after World War II, John Kels, an ex-history teacher, his wife, Paulie, and their children leave Denver in order to make a new life on a sheep ranch in the Colorado mountains. The story deals with the both the conflict between the individual and the community and with the individual''s relationship with the land.

The novel follows the efforts of a deracinated Yaqui Indian to recover his ancestral traditions.

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

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

Contains 38 pieces of correspondence written to Wanda Snow Peterson.

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