Hardscrabble (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781585363759)

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.

Author: Sandra Dallas
ISBN-10: 1585363758
ISBN-13: 9781585363759
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2018
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501249 / Hardscrabble


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2018
School Library Journal 03/01/2018 pg. 99
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory