by Katherine Applegate (Author), Jan Ormerod (Illustrator)
Hallie isn't afraid of anything--that is, anything but storms, which she braves along with her grandmother, huddled beneath a special quilt. When her family joins a wagon train headed west, leaving her grandmother--and everything Hallie has ever known--behind, Hallie knows she will have to be braver than she's ever been before. But can she summon the courage to help a young buffalo stuck on a rocky ridge during a wild storm? The Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate has paired lyrical text with gorgeous watercolors throughout.
Author Biography
Katherine Applegate has written numerous books for young readers, including The One and Only Ivan, the middle grade chapter book for which she received the Newbery Medal in 2013. She is also the author of the recently published nonfiction picture book, Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla. She lives in California with her husband and two children.
Jan Ormerod (1946-2013) was an award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for children during her lifetime. Among her most beloved books are Lizzie Nonsense and Sunshine, an Australian Picture Book for the Year.