PATRICIA MACLACHLAN

Caleb y Anna viven con su padre en el campo. Su madre murió cuando Caleb nació y los niños echan de menos una figura materna. Decidido a encontrar a alguien que devuelva la alegría al hogar, el padre escribe un anuncio en el periódico. Sarah Wheaton responde al anuncio y, tras cartearse con los niños, decide pasar el verano con ellos para conoce...

In SNOWFLAKES FALL, Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Steven Kellogg portray life's natural cycle: its beauty, its joy and its sorrow. Together, the words and pictures offer the promise that renewal can be found in our lives-snowflakes fall, and return again as raindrops so that flowers can grow.   Kellogg raised his ...

Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down. For the first time Arthur wonders what's real an...

Anna has done something terrible. She has given me her journal to fill.In Anna's journal the words walk across the page like bird prints in the mud. But it is hard for me. It is hard for me to find things to write about.""It's your job now,"" Anna says as she hands Caleb her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, J...

After her grandfather's death, Cassie longs for an orderliness to life -' a pattern -' that doesn't exist among her raucous, loving family. But during an eventful summer by the sea, she begins to learn that some things do not stay the same forever. Colorful characters [and] Cassie's continuing and believable growth in understanding herself and o...

Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her ...