Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Date Published: 1985
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary: Anna remembers when her father used to sing, years before her brother Caleb was born and her mother died. But now he doesn’t sing, and Anna and Caleb want to help him. When Anna’s father announces that he’s put an ad in the paper for a wife, he gets a response from a woman in Maine, a woman named Sarah. As Anna and Caleb wait eagerly for the day Sarah arrives, they hope she will like them and their home, and they hope that she will bring singing back to their house.