A debut YA American epic and historical adventure from Melissa Ostrom about striking out for your own destiny.
She's not the girl everyone expects her to be.
Harriet Winter is the eldest daughter in a farming family in New Hampshire, 1807. She is expected to help with her younger sisters. To pitch in with the cooking and cleaning. And to marry her neighbor, the farmer Daniel Long. Harriets mother sees Daniel as a good match, but Harriet doesnt want someone else to choose her pathin love or in life.
When Harriets brother decides to strike out for the Genesee Valley in Western New York, Harriet decides to go with himdisguised as a boy. Their journey includes sickness, uninvited strangers, and difficult emotional terrain as Harriet sees more of the world, realizes what she wants, and accepts who shes loved all along.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
She's not the girl everyone expects her to be.
Harriet Winter is the eldest daughter in a farming family in New Hampshire, 1807. She is expected to help with her younger sisters. To pitch in with the cooking and cleaning. And to marry her neighbor, the farmer Daniel Long. Harriets mother sees Daniel as a good match, but Harriet doesnt want someone else to choose her pathin love or in life.
When Harriets brother decides to strike out for the Genesee Valley in Western New York, Harriet decides to go with himdisguised as a boy. Their journey includes sickness, uninvited strangers, and difficult emotional terrain as Harriet sees more of the world, realizes what she wants, and accepts who shes loved all along.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Praise for this book
"A page-turning, delightful debut with equal parts historical adventure and romance." - Ruta Sepetys
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