Sarah Anne Hartford

By Kathleen Duey

Book Overview

Breaking the Sabbath by playing on a snowy hill, Sarah of Puritan Massachusetts records in her 1650 diary her difficult choice between upsetting her father and letting someone else be punished for her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689803842
• ISBN13: 9780689803840
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Brings Puritan Massachusetts to life.

Sarah is a twelve-year-old Puritan girl living in Massachusetts in 1651. She is dreadfully unhappy because she fears her widowed father plans to marry a strict woman who dislikes Sarah and considers her to be poorly behaved. Playing on Sundays is strictly forbidden by the Puritan church. But one Sunday after a snow storm, Sarah and her best friend, Elizabeth (whose parents are considered to be somewhat freethinking for Puritans) can't help themselves, and they start to play in the snow, when they notice someone watching them and flee. Later, Mistress Goddard (Sarah's potential future stepmother) comes forward and announces that she saw Elizabeth and her brother Roger (she thought Sarah was Roger because she had borrowed his coat) broke the rules of the Sabbath. Now Roger will be punished when Sarah is the one who broke the rules. Can Sarah find the courage to come forward with the truth? I highly reccomend this excellant, detailed historical novel.

A Very Good book!

This is an excellent book! As soon as I picked it up I couldn't put it down. It was very exciting to read. I reccomend this book to anyone who likes exciting books.

Wonderful!

This is a lovely book! I bought it for my daughter and we both enjoyed it

Very enjoyable book!

This book was about 12 year old Sarah who lives in Puritan New England. Her mother is no longer living and her Father is thinking about marrying a woman Sarah doesn't care for. On the Sabbath, a very strict day in Puritan Society, Sarah walks home with her best friend Elizabeth. But before she walks with her she gets a coat from Elizabeth's brother, because she is cold. So they walk, and Elizabeth slips. But after she realized how fun it was she did it some more and Sarah just had to try. But they were doing something awful. Laughing and playing on Sabbath. The woman Sarah's dad wants to marry hears them and walks over to get a closer look. She reconizes Elizabeth but she mistakens Sarah for Elizabeth's brother (you know, she's wearing his coat). So she runs off and tells everyone. But Sarah feels guilty. She should be the one to blame, not him. Sarah faces moral dilema and tries to do what she knows is right in her heart.

A wonderful book by a wonderful author!

Sarah lives in Puritan Massachusetts. When she breaks the strict rules by laughing and playing on the Sabbath, she faces a painful moral dillema. If she says nothing, an innocent person will be punished in her place. Yet if she admits it was her, her father might shun her forever. How will Sarah find the courage to do what is right?