Hattie Big Sky
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Hattie Big Sky is a children's novel written by Kirby Larson. The book was named a Newbery Honor book for the year 2007.
The protagonist is Hattie Brooks, a sixteen-year-old orphan who has tired of being shuffled among relatives she hardly knows. Frustrated with her situation, she decides to move by herself to her uncle's abandoned homestead in Montana.
The story is based on bits of Larson's own family history. Her great-grandmother, Hattie Brooks, was a teenage homesteader on a plot of land in Montana in 1914. When Larson heard stories about her life on the Montana plains, she became interested in researching and writing about her.[1]
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[MotherDaughterBookClub.com interview with Kirby Larson http://motherdaughterbookclub.com/interviews.html#Kirby%20Larson]
