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Chargement... Hattie Big Skypar Kirby Larson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I listened to the audio. It was excellent! ( ) I'm ashamed that I took so long to get to this book. I'm excited because I found a copy at Goodwill and got it home only to realize it was a signed copy and because it was such a wonderful read. Now I'm doubly excited to learn that a sequel (Hattie Ever After) is being released soon, so I feel like I can catch up now. This is historical fiction at its best, thus the many awards it has rightfully received. It's for young adults but reads well for grown-ups, too. I've always been a fan of Willa Cather's books and this has that same flavor about life on the prairie in the frontier days. I can't wait to learn about what happens to Hattie in the next book. It's on my list for when it's released. But start with this one if you haven't read it yet! This was another book I received from the secret santa book exchange. It was a little slow at points but for the most part very interesting. In the authors note at the end she tells about how her great grandmother was the inspiration for this book and talks about all the research she did to make it historically accurate. I love when authors do that, it makes historical fiction so much more interesting! It is very similar to the When Calls the Heart series, however it doesn't end the way I was expecting. There is a sequel to this book which I will probably read at some point because the ending did leave a lot of things unfinished.
Elizabeth Bush (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, March 2007 (Vol. 60, No. 7)) There’s not much future in Iowa for sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks, whose guardian aunt is urging her to quit school and take a domestic job, so the opportunity to prove up a Montana homestead claim left to her by a deceased uncle seems a longshot worth taking. She’ll have the better part of one year to complete the fencing, bring forty acres under cultivation, and raise the nearly forty-dollar fee to own the property free and clear. Neighbors welcome her and assist wherever they can—advising on crop choice, stretching fence wire in spare moments, donating a few chickens, sharing heaving equipment, and offering moral support and friendship. But Hattie’s particular closeness with the family of German immigrant Karl Mueller and his American wife, Perilee, catches the attention of Traft Martin, scion of a wealthy ranching family and head of a nativist contingent of townsfolk who whip up anti-German sentiments as World War I rages in Europe and claims the lives of American soldiers. Martin keeps Hattie wary and off balance—charming her with hints of romance one moment, cajoling her to sell her farm the next; reasoning with her about making ill-advised friendships, and then turning to thinly veiled threats. Hattie’s determination and loyalty to the Muellers is unshakable, but just when it looks like she will succeed, Nature throws a knockout punch worse than anything Martin or his ilk could devise. Larson’s tale is inspired by an ancestor who, as a single young woman, did prove up a Montana claim, but she turns to more common experiences of failure to fashion Hattie’s fictional story. With the literary Great Plains overpopulated by plucky 1800s girls on covered wagons, it’s refreshing to bring the homestead experience into the twentieth century and meet a strong-willed young woman who meets failure with dignity, shoulders her debts with good-natured resolve, and plans her future with cautious optimism. Review Code: R -- Recommended. (c) Copyright 2006, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 2006, Delacorte, 289p., $17.99 and $15.95. Grades 6-9. Prix et récompensesListes notables
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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