When Sarah Went to School

"When Sarah Went to School" by Elsie Singmaster follows Sarah Wenner as she leaves her home in the Pennsylvania Dutch country to attend boarding school, where she encounters some initial hostility. Her life has been hard since her parents died and she has taken care of younger twin sisters and a younger brother. But her older brother married and brought home his wife, Laura, who was a school teacher previously at the Normal school where they decide to send Sarah.