Hardscrabble - Sandra Dallas 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 8 - 11 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 680 (What's this?)
Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press (March 15, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585363758
ISBN-13: 978-1585363759
Hardscrabble Hardcover – March 15, 2018
by Sandra Dallas (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Hardscrabble-Sandra-Dallas/dp/1585363758
Product details
Age Range: 8 - 11 years
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Lexile Measure: 680 (What's this?)
Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press (March 15, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585363758
ISBN-13: 978-1585363759
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.
Review
A cast of believable characters with distinct personalities brings this slice of U.S. history to life; particular attention is given to how the difficulties of frontier life impact the children.
VERDICT Dallas s latest work of historical fiction (Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky; The Quilt Walk) conveys the importance of family and the value of neighbors helping one another. A fine selection where fiction about white U.S. frontier life is in demand. --School Library Journal
Perseverance, that eternal ethos of settler sagas, is personified in Belle, who even schemes at matchmaking. The standard plot points of many pioneer stories are touched on: plagues of locusts, blizzards, and even a solitary bad guy scared off by intrepid heroines. Dallas, a prolific author of adult westerns, and a Spur Award winner, has written a story young readers drawn to historical fiction like the Little House series will find satisfying. --Booklist
About the Author
Sandra Dallas is the author of numerous titles, including Prayers for Sale and The Diary of Mattie Spenser, and the middle-grade novels The Quilt Walk and Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Skies. Her awards include two Western Writers of America Spur Awards and four Women Writing the West Willa Awards.
百度网盘：
链接：点击去百度网盘 -->(购买前请先验证网盘链接是否有效) 密码：1hk2
