Hattie Big Sky

Hattie Big Sky is a children's historical novel by Kirby Larson, published in 2006. In 2007 the book was named a Newbery Honor book [1] and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults.[2] Hattie Big Sky was also an Illinois Rebecca Caudill Award nominee.

Plot

The novel is set during World War I. Hattie Brooks, a sixteen-year-old orphan who has tired of being shuttled between relatives she hardly knows, receives a letter from an uncle who has recently died. He leaves her all of his land, and Hattie travels to his farm in Montana to start life as a homesteader. She has less than a year to prove herself capable of taking care of the land. In the book we learn about Hattie through her letters to her friend Charlie who is at war, and to her Uncle Holt. One difficulty Hattie faces is being called upon, as a loyal American, to shun her kind neighbors because of their German descent.

Notes

  1. ↑ "2007 Newbery Medal and Honor Books". Association for Library Service to Children. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  2. ↑ American Library Association (2007). "2007 Best Books for Young Adults". Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
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