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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 ADULTSIt takes about 5 Hours and 16 minutes on average for a reader to read Hattie Big Sky. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
The recommended reading level for Hattie Big Sky is 8th Grade through 12th Grade .
The Lexile score for Hattie Big Sky is 700.
Hattie Big Sky is 320 pages long.
Hattie Big Sky is book #1 in the Hattie Book Series and comes before Hattie Ever After
Hattie Big Sky won the following awards:
in 2006 Hattie Big Sky won the Cybils in category .
in 2009 Hattie Big Sky won the Young Hoosier Book Award in category .
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