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Clark, Clara Gillow
3 Reviews
(2)
4-6
Hattie (Hill Hawk Hattie) needs all her resilience and bravery in her new life at Grandmother's house. Their fortune gone, Hattie tries to decipher a coded message from her grandfather that she hopes will lead to treasure. Clark delivers a taut, engaging story, balancing plot with a first-person narration that conveys Hattie's depth of emotion and her practical, problem-solving nature.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2009
(2)
4-6
This sequel to Hill Hawk Hattie almost stands alone and is not an adventure but a mystery, as Hattie tries to uncover the "unspeakable secret" behind her grandfather's absence and how it relates to her beloved mother's lifelong fragility and early death. Hattie's first-person narration is blunt and folksy in this satisfying and old-fashioned girl story.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2005
(3)
4-6
Eleven-year-old Hattie disguises herself as a boy and joins her father piloting a raft down the Delaware River. By the time they finish the dangerous journey and sell the logs, father and daughter have bridged the emotional gulf that opened when Hattie's mother died. Set in the late 1800s, Clark's novel is a clear and readable picture of the rafting era.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
3 reviews
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