I read Kenmore, Washington author Kirby Larson’s Newbery Honor-winning book Hattie Big Sky when it came out in 2007. The story of 16-year-old Hattie, who moves to Montana by herself to try to prove up on a homestead claim left to her by her bachelor uncle, completely captured my heart, and I hand-sold it to everyone I …
“In this sequel, just out today, readers will be able to follow Hattie Big Sky to San Francisco from Montana, in part two of Kirby Larson’s saga about the teenager who took on a homestead and almost made it work. These novels have appeal to readers teen and up and book clubs, adolescent as well as …
Flannery O’Connor once gave her short stories to a neighbor who read them and said, “Them stories just gone and shown you how some folks would do.” Ten years ago, after hearing a snippet of a story from my grandmother about her step-mother, Hattie, who homesteaded by herself as a young woman in eastern Montana, …
