![]() Belle, her mother and six siblings meet her father at the train station, and soon approach their new home: a sod house. It centers on the Martin family, who travel to Mingo, Colorado after their farm fails in Iowa. ![]() Hardscrabble is no different, but it's softened for a younger audience. ![]() Strong, loyal, hardworking women who just want the best life they can manage-often times, at the end of a long, rough road. Her main characters are always women, and they're women you would love to know. She writes about pioneers, homesteaders, and folks who lived hard lives in the settling of the West and Mid-West. Sandra is one of my favorite authors, and her new adult novel, The Patchwork Bride, is due out in early June. After reading In Cold Blood and The Hazel Wood, I needed something a little lighter! Enter Sandra Dallas' Hardscrabble, a children's novel about homesteading in 1910 Colorado. ![]()
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