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PLAIN GIRL

VIRGINIA SORENSEN

Illustrated by Charles Geer

Cover illustration by Lambert Davis

Every day, every hour at school, Esther stood out like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. Esther was Amish, or a Plain Girl. It wasn't
until she was almost ten years old that the Pennsylvania school authorities forced her father to send her to public school. The Amish, you see, believe
in teaching their children at home, according to their own ways.

Esther's brother, Dan, had gone to public school--and, because of the different life he discovered there, he had run away from home. Dan felt that he, not
his parents, should decide whether or not he would accept the Amish way of life.

Esther was secretly looking forward to seeing all the wonderful things at school that Dan had told her about. But like Dan, she knew that she, too, would
be faced with a difficult choice.

"A tender and wise book, and the details of Amish living are interesting and authentic."

--Christian Science Monitor

SCHOLASTIC INC. 0-590-43144-7

i by Virginia Sorensen

MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL (newbery medal winner)

ii

GIRL

VIRGINIA SOREnSEN

Illustrated by Charles Geer

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Copyright й1983, 1955 by Virginia Sorensen. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc., 730 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, by arrangement with Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Publishers.

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Printed in the U.S.A. First Scholastic printing, February 1990