Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Yearling, [2008], ©2006.Edition: 1st Yearling edDescription: vii, 289 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385735957
- 0385735952
- 9781448778089
- 1448778085
- 0385733135
- 9780385733137
- 0385903324
- 9780385903325
- 9780606074902
- 0606074902
- Newbery Honor Book, 2007.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | LARSON, KIRBY | 1 | Pending hold | 2007 Newbery Honor Book | 33111010795280 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, ©2006.
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Includes bibliographical references (page 289).
Newbery Honor Book, 2007.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.4 10.0 109096.