Hattie Big Sky<\/i> by Kirby Larson is young adult historical novel set in 1917-1918. Like Hope at Dawn<\/i> it takes place during America’s involvement in WWI. Hattie even has a close friend who’s a soldier over there. While “proving up” by herself on her uncle’s homestead in Montana, she witnesses firsthand some German-American prejudice.<\/p>\n
Next week I’ll share two of my favorite movies set during WWI – one well-known, the other much less so but fantastic at capturing a world right on the cusp of war.<\/p>\n
Have you read <\/i>Hattie Big Sky? What other books about German-Americans during the Great War have you read? Did the title of this post put that Depeche Mode song in your head, too? \ud83d\ude42<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The German-American experience during the Great War is one that isn’t found in very many works of fiction. Even true stories don’t abound in huge numbers online. So I thought I’d share the name of another work of fiction that touches on this lesser known piece of history and is a really great read, too. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}