The James Logan Courier

Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (September 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385733135
ISBN-13: 978-0385733137

From hattiebigsky.com:
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim.

Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove on her quest to discover the true meaning of home.

Read the first chapter.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Reviewer

The novel King Solomon's Mines involves an intriguing character by the name of Allan Quatermain. Quatermain is asked for help by a rich man, Sir Henry Curtis, in a search for his lost brother. Sir Henry's brother desired treasures which reside in King Solomon�s Mines and was presumably lost on his journey.

Quatermain is the daring leader of the expedition, in addition to adventure he wants part of the treasure sitting in King Solomon's Mines. This is supposedly his last job whether he finds the treasure or not. He believes that the dangerous journey will consume his life; yet he agrees to embark on the quest anyway.

Read King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, one of 57 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.