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Virginia Sorensen

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Provo, Utah, The United States

Genre

Children's Books, Fiction, Memoir

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Virginia Louise Sorensen (February 17, 1912-1991) was an American writer. Her role in Utah and Mormon literature places her within the "lost generation" of Mormon writers. She was awarded the 1957 Newbery Medal for her children's novel, Miracles on Maple Hill.

Sorensen was born in Provo, Utah in 1912, and it was her family's own stories that influenced her early novels of the American West.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 12,818 ratings · 992 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen, Joe Krush (Illustrator), Beth Krush (Illustrator) 3.87 avg rating — 11,765 ratings — published 1956 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen, Charles Geer (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1955 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Lower than the Angels 3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood by Virginia Sorensen, Susan Elizabeth Howe (Foreword by) 3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evening and the Morning 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1949	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lotte's Locket by Virginia Sorensen, Fermin Rocker (Illustrator) 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curious Missie by Virginia Sorensen, Marilyn Miller (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1953 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On this Star by Virginia Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Many Heavens 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1954	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Around the Corner by Virginia Sorensen, Robert Weaver (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you have done a great many good things, you forget to speak of them. It is those who do very little who must talk of it.
-Henry in Miracles on Maple Hill”
― Virginia Sorensen, Miracles on Maple Hill

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“I hate this country,” she thought,” I hate it. I always hated it, really. It’s too flat and terrible, there’s no end or beginning to it, and the people are too flat and patient, taking things the way they do and believing them. To inherit the highest degree of glory – to sit beside Brother Joseph again, in another world, and to be commanded by that voice again.” She knew suddenly that Simon belonged to them and not to her – he was flat and yielding and patient, too, Simon was. He wasn’t living now, he was living forever.”
― Virginia Sorensen, A Little Lower than the Angels

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