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1 primary bookHattie is a 1-book series first released in 2006 with contributions by Kirby Larson.
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This was a great read for middle school / jr high kids.
It is not schmaltzy at all and really emphasizes the incredible hard work homesteaders went through.
Hattie, orphaned and farmed out to various relatives, is just about to be forced to leave school and take up tedious work at a local store when she learns she has inherited a 320 acre farm. The farm is not without conditions, however. Hattie is required by the terms of the homesteading agreement to fence the land and plant a crop. She soon learns it will take real gumption just to survive the bleak Montana winter. A community of other homesteaders helps Hattie as she tries to make it in a small cabin through the freezing winter. Newbery Honor.