Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

This Newbery Honor winning, New York Times bestseller 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.

AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASOCIATION BEST BOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
A SCHOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOK
A BOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE
NAMED TO 13 STATE AWARD LISTS

A marvelous story about courage, loyalty, perseverance, and the meaning of home. --Newbery Award-Winning Author Karen Cushman

Kirby Larson is the bestselling author of Hattie Big Sky, a 2007 Newbery Honor Book; Hattie Ever After; The Friendship Doll; Dear America: The Fences Between Us; Duke; Dash, winner of the Scott O'Dell Prize for Historical Fiction; Liberty; Code Word Courage; Audacity Jones to the Rescue; and Audacity Jones Steals the Show. She also cowrote the picture books Two Bobbies: A Real Tale of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival and Nubs: A True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle, both of which won awards. She and her spouse, Winston the Wonder Dog, live in Washington.

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ISBN 13	9780385733137
ISBN 10	0385733135
Title	Hattie Big Sky
Author	Kirby Larson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Year published	2007-02-27
Number of pages	289
Prizes	Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Young Adult) 2008, Short-listed for William Allen White Childens Book Award (Grades 6-8) 2009
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.