Hattie is a twelve-year-old growing up near the Sabine River in East Texas of the 1890's. She would much rather ride horses and go fishing with her older brother Sam, than learn to cook and sew like her sister Rosalie. Though their adventures sometimes get out of hand, she wouldn't have it any other way.
Then Hattie's world turns upside down as Sam leaves home, Gramma gets hurt, and Rosalie decides to get married. It begins to feel like more than she can handle. But she soon learns that some things will never change.
The Hattie series began with a story my granddad told when I was a child about a young lady in our family who encountered a panther as she was out picking peas. Her courage and resourcefulness impressed me so much that I remembered it years later. Since it's the climax of this book, I won't spoil the end by telling you what happened. But I like to think that Mama and Papa Chambers would approve ~ Debra
Hattie's Dogtrot Cabin
REVIEWS (nice things people have said that you don't mind repeating)
"One of the finest YA novels I have read." Gilbert Morris, best-selling author of Christian fiction, May 1995, 1st edition
"Book 1 in the Hattie Marshall Frontier Adventures series, Hattie Marshall And The Prowling Panther is a young adult novel about a twelve-year-old girl for whom frontier life can be scary. Threats range from floods that can sweep a person away to a hungry black panther that hunts for its next meal around the family farm. Worst of all, her beloved brother Sam is leaving on a cattle drive that will take him away from home for several months. But love between siblings remains strong despite distance, and God remains with her even when she is lonely and the world makes no sense. A gentle novel of surviving and making the most of life in rugged times, with roots in the tales that the author's grandfather told her about his childhood in east Texas." By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) June 14, 2005
Fun facts about Texas at: tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/
