Hardscrabble Contributor(s): Dallas, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 1585363758 ISBN-13: 9781585363759 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2017029809 |
Lexile Measure: 680 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.79 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Geographic Orientation - Colorado - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Family |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 501249 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 2020-2021 South Carolina Book Awards 2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado. |