It is Sarah's first day of work at The Lagoon Cafe. Sarah serves the customers with her co-worker Ji-Sung while Mrs. Hayes, the owner, goes out shopping. A man Sarah does not know comes into the cafe and takes food without paying. Sarah and Ji-Sung call the police. While they are telling the police what happened, Mrs. Hayes comes into the store followed by the man who "stole" the food. Mrs. Hayes identifies the man as her husband who also owns the cafe.
This is a book of my joys, sorrows, prayers, advice, and etceteras. To the ones who know me, this book will help them to know me better. To the ones who never met me or heard of me before, this book will help us to get acquainted and will serve as an introduction to my life and me and encourage you in yours. Sarah Mooney Winn
Follow the changing fortunes of an early American family living through tumultuous times.The Cary family of Chelsea, Massachusetts, prospered as plantation owners and managers for nearly two decades in the West Indies before the Grenada slave revolts of 1795–1796 upended the sugar trade. Sarah Gray Cary used her quick intelligence and astute judgment to help her family adapt to their shifting fortunes. From Samuel Cary’s departure from Boston to St. Kitts in 1764 to the second generation’s search for trade throughout the West Indies, Susan Clair Imbarrato tells the compelling story of the Cary family from prosperity and crisis to renewal.Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this engaging book describes how Sarah Cary managed households in both Grenada and Chelsea while raising thirteen children. In particular, Imbarrato examines Sarah’s correspondence with her sons Samuel and Lucius, in which they address family matters, share opinions on political and social events, discuss literature and philosophy, and speculate about business.Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada offers a rare female perspective on colonial America and Caribbean plantation life and provides a unique view of a seminal period of early American history.
Young readers will enjoy this heartwarming story following Sarah's journey with a small family to become the mother-figure they desperately need. Sarah, Plain and Tall: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and engaging lessons and activities to aid your students' explorations of rich, complex literature. Readers will learn such skills as analyzing and comprehending story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.
