Miracles on Maple Hill
| Year of Publication |
1956
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
180 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Harcourt Brace
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Marly's father is a World War II veteran in Pittsburgh suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. To restore his spirits, the family moves north to Maple Hill Farm near Edinboro where a neighboring couple—making their living by maple sugaring—befriends them. |
| Notes |
This novel won the 1957 John Newbery Medal for Excellence in American Children's Literature. |
| Author Biography |
Virginia Sorensen (1912-91), born in Provo, Utah and a graduate of Brigham Young University, wrote fiction for both adults and children. In the 1950s she lived in Edinboro, Erie County, where her husband Frederick Sorensen was a professor of English, and there she wrote two novels with Western Pennsylvania settings, Miracles on Maple Hill and Plain Girl. Joe Krush (1918-2022) and Beth Krush (1918-2009) were a husband-and-wife team of children's book illustrators. |
| Time |
1950s |
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