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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.
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SERIES
Sleeping Bear Press
PUBLISHED
Year Published: 2018
Format: Book Download
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781534122918
SUBJECTS
Colorado -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S) -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.