16-year-old Hattie has never really had a place to call home.
Shuttled between relatives, she’s more Hattie-here-and-there than Hattie-somewhere-of-her-own.
That’s why, when her scoundrel uncle, Uncle Chester, leaves Hattie his homestead claim
in Montana, Hattie barely thinks twice before shipping out to prove up.
But what’s one 16-year-old girl versus the vagaries of the Montana wilderness?
Hattie has no idea what she’ll find in Montana.
A place of her own, she hopes.
But Uncle Chester’s shanty, debts, and ornery cow aren’t exactly what Hattie had imagined.
Still, Hattie is undeterred.
She braves the cruelty of a Montana winter, the muck of a Montana spring, and the hellish
heat of a Montana summer, all so she can finish her uncle’s fencing, harvest her crops,
and hand over the $37 that will make Uncle Chester’s stubborn land officially Hattie’s
own.
Above all, Hattie Big Sky is a book about finding where you belong, and finding more
expansive meanings of love, family, and of course, home.
But don’t take that to mean that this book is mushy or slow-going.
On the contrary, Hattie’s life on the Montana prairie is filled with near-disasters.
And Hattie proves to be a courageous heroine who’s as strong as any man in Montana—maybe
stronger.
So does Hattie prove up?
Does she make her deadline?
You’ll find out when you read this book…or when we talk about the sequel to Hattie Big
Sky, coming up next week!