Sarah on Her Own

by Karen Mueller Coombs

Book Overview

Surviving a tortuous sea journey to the New World, fourteen-year-old Sarah finds herself orphaned and facing marriage or servitude if she is to survive and vows to save enough money to return to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380782758
• ISBN13: 9780380782758
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Review for Sarah on Her Own

This book is one of the best books I have ever read. Each character seems to come alive with each page. By the end of the book you feel like you actually personally know each and every character. I believe it takes a really talented author to make that happen. My favorite character in the book was Sarah. Her determination, courage, and spirit made the book. This book was excellent and I encourage anyone to read it, but I warn you, you won't be able to put it down until you are finished!

I wish I could give it more stars...

Sarah reluctantly travels to Virginia from England with the aunt she has lived with ever since she lost her parents. The journey is long and hard, but the hardship is multiplied when Sarah loses her aunt and finds herself alone in a new world.Sarah works along side the other colonists, but, instead of working to make a new life, she works to earn enough for passage back to her old one. As Sarah grows from child to woman, the hunger, death, never ending work, and other challenges that accompany settling a new land bind her to the people around her and forge friendships that make Sarah doubt her determination to leave. And, in a twist of fate, she finds herself losing her heart to a man who loves the land and is just as determined to never leave. Sarah may have finally found the place that she truly belongs, but, when tragedy strikes, will she stand by those who have come to love her or will she finally decide to flee?This is my absolute favorite book of all time! It is romantic, tragic, adventurous, and ends exactly as it should. If you can find this book, do yourself a huge favor and get it a.s.a.p. If you're like me, you'll read it over, and over, and over again.

A book I still remember after four years.

I read this book four years ago, when it first came out, and I still remember all of it, I enjoyed it so much. It's 1620, and fourteen-year-old Sarah hates the New World the moment she sets foot on it. An orphan, Sarah longs to return to England, and she decides to save up enough money for the journey. The other settlers discourage her, telling her she should either marry or become a servant. Sarah struggles to hold on to her dreams over more than two years as she matures and slowly begins to think of Virginia as her home, even falling in love. But violence and tragedy shatter her world, and she must start all over, with only her courage and hope for the future to sustain her. This is an excellant book, and though it is hard to find now, if you can find it, and you're a teenager that enjoys historical fiction, read it!

Great insight into early Virginia history!

Sarah arrives in Virginia orphaned, penniless, and alone. Most young women settle for a hasty marriage, for the only other choice is indenture. But Sarah is determined to return to England, and she sets out to earn enough money for the return voyage. But Sarah discovers the one thing she least expected to find in this harsh new land: true love.

A fascinating dive into early Virginia's history

SARAH is a joyful combination of compelling characters (Sarah herself and others, such as the ebullient, sassy boy Twig) layered in a period of our country's early history and fresh writing that sweeps you along. We're soaked in the times-- the food and clothes, the problems between the native Americans and the people arriving from far-away England. The author's thorough research is obvious--readers are grounded in custom, law, flora and fauna and more. We're there in early Virginia. Other characters are distinctive in their speech, values, and life views. A map helps you know the area. Sarah is a powerful central character who faces daunting adversities with pluck and intelligence. At the back of the book, the author discusses how the book came into being. Fascinating reading. I loved this book.