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CHICK GRIT IBD

GLENARVON PRESS
11 / 2020
9798201121952
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Sinopsis

"Burrows employs a witty narrative voice and a unique setting that informs readers about the 1830s frontier and the world of avid historical reenactors...An often cleveráand tightly pacedáYA romp." --áKirkus ReviewsáFinalist, 2021 Book Buyers Best Contest,Young Adult CategoryFifteen-year-old Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall is spending her summer in retro hell.ááHer history professor parents drag her along to a living history campground in North Dakota so they can relive the Era of the Fur Trader and the Mountain Man&mdash,even though Chloe doesnâÇÖt wear fur and doesnâÇÖt date mountain men.SheâÇÖs also disastrously inept at mastering frontier skills, and she flunks her ox-droving license test. An oversized, hatchet-wearing junior mountain man throwback wants her for his mountain mama, and rejecting him could be awkward since his sister, a girl blacksmith, is her one and only friend. All the other kids in the campgroundâÇÖs Teen Activities Group dis and dismiss her as a gritless asphalt brat.ChloeâÇÖs an unhappy camper until she meets Zach, a hot boy in buckskins with a matching horse. ItâÇÖs crush at first sight for Chloe, and sheâÇÖs determined to prove to Zach and his friends that city girls do have grit. Chick grit.But when a natural disaster strikes the campground, will ChloeâÇÖs chick grit be enough to save a childâÇÖs life&mdash,and her own?á81,000 words

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