Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

The storyline sounds so familiar to us nowadays. Esther attends the school, makes a friend she doesn't know if she is allowed to have, reconnects with her brother and has her horizons broadened as well. Of course, Esther's father doesn't want her to go, in part because she has an older brother who once attend the same public school and eventually left home because he became curious about the world outside of his immediate community. Pennsylvania's compulsory school law is forcing Esther's family to attend the local public school. This is the story of ten-year-old Esther, who is Amish. First published in 1955, it seems a precursor to the modern storm of Amish fiction which we can readily find on bookstore shelves today. I picked it up in the first place because it was by the same author of Miracles on Maple Hill (linked to my thoughts) which I really enjoyed. I'm hoping to shake the mental reading fog here soon.Īt any rate, I read Plain Girl. At the same time, I'm feeling sort of listless in my reading of late and am irritatingly (to myself) unmotivated to dive into something deeper. I'm trying to work through a lot of the shorter books that I seem to continually purchase but never made the time for. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for awhile. I picked up Plain Girl on the heels of Villa Triste (linked) for two reasons:Ģ.

Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74).

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen