Buffalo Flats
(Book)
Author
Published
New York City : Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780823443420, 0823443426
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm.
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Published
New York City : Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, 2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780823443420, 0823443426
Notes
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her—a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant and exciting like Levi Howard? Or a man of ideas like her childhood friend Coby Webster? Rebecca decides to set her sights on something completely different. She loves the land and wants her own piece of it. When she learns that single women aren’t allowed to homestead, her father agrees to buy her land outright, as long as Rebecca earns the money —480 dollars, an impossible sum. She sets out to earn the money while surviving the relentless challenges of pioneer life—the ones that Mother Nature throws at her in the form of blizzards, grizzles, influenza and floods, and the ones that come with human nature, be they exasperating neighbors or the breathtaking frailty of life. Buffalo Flats is inspired by true-life histories of the author’s ancestors. It is an extraordinary novel that explores Latter-Day Saints culture and the hardships of pioneer life. It is about a stubborn, irreverent, and resourceful young woman who remains true to herself and discovers that it is the bonds of family, faith, and friendship—even romance–that tie her to the wild and unpredictable land she loves so fiercely." --publishers' website
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction | YAFIC LEAVITT | Available |
Chester Library - Juvenile Fiction - New | J FICTION LEAVITT | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Teen/YA Fiction | YA LEAVITT Martine | Available |
Lake Hiawatha Library - Teen/YA Fiction | YA FICTION LEAVITT | Available |
Lincoln Park Library - Teen/YA Fiction | YA FICTION LEAVITT | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Leavitt, M. (2023). Buffalo Flats (First edition.). Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leavitt, Martine, 1953-. 2023. Buffalo Flats. Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Leavitt, Martine, 1953-. Buffalo Flats Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Leavitt, Martine. Buffalo Flats First edition., Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, 2023.
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