Hattie Big Sky

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.

Author: Kirby Larson
Publisher: Ember
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780440239413
ISBN10: 0440239419
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | United States | 20th Century
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Orphans & Foster Homes
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women

About the Author
After Kirby Larson heard a snippet of a story about her great-grandmother homesteading in eastern Montana, she spent three years working on this story. The author lives in Kenmore, WA.