Hattie Inez Brooks has been passed from relative to relative ever since her parents died when she was a baby. Now she's living with her Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt but her aunt is itching to get rid of her. How's a sixteen year old orphan supposed to take care of herself in 1917 America? Well...Hattie gets word that her mother's brother Chester has just died and left her his unproved claim in Vida, Montana. Her Uncle Holt buys her a train ticket and Hattie's off to make a home of her own. When I'm tempted to complain about living in my drafty old house out in the middle of the country, I'll remember Hattie's first winter in a tar paper shanty with no indoor plumbing and only a cookstove for heat! 289 pages.
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