As the leaves turn brown and the river runs dry on the prairie, Sarah dreams of the lush green grasses and the blue ocean of her native Maine.
Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Papa ever be a family again?.
And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came.
Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa.
He would not leave his land.
Papa stayed behind.
So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe.
Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water.
But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown.
Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa.
She tries, but she can\'t help remembering what she knew first.
My mother, Sarah, doesn\'t love the prairie.
The second book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
When fires and drought threaten to devastate their farm, Sarah takes the children to Maine where they will be safe in this sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall.
As the leaves turn brown and the river runs dry on the prairie, Sarah dreams of the lush green grasses and the blue ocean of her native Maine
