Brown-haired and brown-eyed Sarah Turner is just nine-going-on-ten when she arrives in Ladner's Landing, British Columbia, with her family in 1877. She is a bright girl, full of curiosity about the world around her, but limited by the times as to what her future can hold.

With her high-buttoned shoes and crisp pinafore, Sarah lives in a world that we wouldn't recognize 130 years later. Wood stoves and butter churns and feather ticking are all commonplace at the time.

But in many ways Sarah and her family are very much like ourselves -- they just have fewer things in their world. Life is hard and full of work, but very satisfying. And Sarah herself -- is she anything like Anne of Green Gables, a familiar figure in Canadian fiction? Well, maybe, except she isn't an orphan and she doesn't have red hair. But strong and lovable she most certainly is.

Follow Sarah through the days to see how life turns out for her. Will her family be able to afford to send her to high school in New Westminster? Will she have a job as a teacher back home in Delta or will she have the opportunity to explore the big city of Victoria? And when it comes to following her heart, whom will she choose -- the poor farmhand who is saving his earnings to buy a farm of his own or the young clerk in New Westminster who can offer her a life in the big city? Will Sarah discover the wider world of British Columbia in the late 1800s?

See for yourself as you read "Sarah of Ladner's Landing." Discover along with Sarah what life in those pioneer days held -- the ups and the downs, the pleasures and the disappointments. get to know Sarah's family -- her supportive parents, William and Mary, her practical brother, Samuel, and her spoiled younger sister, Marianna. Most of all, be a part of Sarah's life as she grows towards womanhood and makes the decisions that affect not only her own life, but the lives of those around her.

In "Sarah in New Westminster," the young girl from the farm will learn how to find her way in the city as she boards with her Aunt Ellen and Uncle Frederick. In later books, we'll accompany Sarah as she tries to pass on her love of learning to other children and as she tries to think through the best decision for her own future.