Hattie Big Sky
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER
A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim.
Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove. Her quest to make a home is championed by new neighbors Perilee Mueller, her German husband, and their children. For the first time in her life, Hattie feels part of a family, finding the strength to stand up against Traft Martin’s schemes to buy her out and against increasing pressure to be a “loyal” American at a time when anything—or anyone—German is suspect. Despite daily trials, Hattie continues to work her uncle’s claim until an unforeseen tragedy causes her to search her soul for the real meaning of home.
This young pioneer's story is lovingly stitched together from Kirby Larson’s own family history and the sights, sounds, and scents of homesteading life.
Customer Reviews
Hattie ♥️♥️♥️
This book is so personal Hattie talks to you as a friend would in a very close bond you can see her entire life and what exactly she is going through form her parents dying to her hated visits to the chamber pot, her debt, love, and just life in general
Thank you Kirby Larson ♥️
Hattie Big Sky
I am using this book in my classroom of Fashion Design students. The students and I find this to be very good historic reading with lots of great sewing references. I have cheated and completed the reading. I discovered even more using help in the back of my ibook. Thank you and I look forward to the sequel.
Hattie
I love this book!! It made me feel like I was going through the adventure!!!!