Hattie Big Sky (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) BN_Top_100 Poems of wayfaring and wayfinding

Poems of wayfaring and wayfinding

After being falsely accused of murdering the man who raised him

But the shift has attracted the attention of the western elves

Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who were immigrant homesteaders

Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation

Hattie Big Sky (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) BN_Top_100 Poems of wayfaring and wayfindingAfter inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, 16 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.