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Hattie Big Sky

Name: Hattie Big Sky
Rating: 4.02 (19505 reviews)
Author: Kirby Larson

Kirby Larson September 26, 2006

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After 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.

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