Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

My friend Alyson recommend Hattie Big Sky to me. Set during WWI, it shares the story of a young orphaned girl who bravely goes to Montana to homestead. Sharing her experience through letters to her friend serving in the military, she learns more about family, friendship, and what truly matters as she works her tail off trying to do the work of a whole family all by herself. This was a fast and interesting read and great for all ages.

Favorite Quotes:

"We'd both signed on for something we'd envisioned as heroic and glamourous. The heroiusm and glamour might be there somewhere, btu you had to dig and scrape and scrabble through the dirt, pain and misery to find it. Assuming youc ould find it."

"It's the company, not the cooking, that makes the meal."

"Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to the Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice."