Hattie Inez Brooks has had a tough life. The 16-year-old orphan has been bounced among relatives' homes in Iowa. So when an uncle dies in 1917 and leaves her his homestead claim in faraway Montana ...

Hattie Big Sky is based on the 2006 Newberry Honor young adult novel of the same name by Kirby Larson. Loosely based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandmother, it tells the story of ...

Hattie Inez Brooks, the determined 17-year-old heroine of Larson's Newbery Honor%E2%80%93winning Hattie Big Sky, returns in this follow-up set in 1919. Her homestead ...

"Hattie Big Sky," Kirby Larson's novel of dryland farming and "proving up" on the homefront during World War I in Montana, is the 2008 One Book Montana selection. Humanities Montana and its ...

I left the smell out.” Readers apparently don’t mind, as Larson’s young-adult novel “Hattie Big Sky” (Delacorte Press, $15.95) was one of three books awarded a Newbery Honor earlier this ...

“Hattie Big Sky,” Kirby Larson’s novel of dryland farming and proving up on the homefront during World War I in Montana, is the 2008 One Book Montana selection. Humanities Montana and its ...

"Hattie Big Sky," Kirby Larson's novel of dryland farming and proving up on the homefront during World War I in Montana, is the 2008 One Book Montana selection. Humanities Montana and its Montana ...