Sarah, Plain and Tall is a children's book written by Patricia MacLachlan, and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. A movie is created with the same name, Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
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- buzzard a large bird of prey, similar to a vulture, with a hooked beak and long, sharp claws clatter to bang together noisily collapse to fall down suddenly from weakness conch the spiral-shaped shell of a marine animal
- dune a sand hill made by the wind near the ocean or a large lake or in a desert
- eerie strange and frightening
- feisty lively or frisky fetch to go after and bring back something or somebody
- flax a plant with blue flowers and long leaves that produces oil and fiber
- gleams shines
- gully a long, narrow ravine or ditch
- hearthstone stone flooring laid in front of a fireplace
- hitch to join something to a vehicle
- squint to nearly close one’s eyes in order to see better
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