Hattie Big Sky (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) BN_Top_100 Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation

Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation

she's always struggled to make friends and

approach and photograph your subject using insider tricks of the trade

” —Leatherneck magazine

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

Hattie Big Sky (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) BN_Top_100 Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translationAfter 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.