As her grandmother's financial situation worsens, Hattie is forced to attend a "common school," in late nineteenth-century Kingston, New York, where she stands up to a show-off, shares embellished stories about life as a rich girl, and tries to recover her family's wealth.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: wealth, juvenile fiction, grandmothers, fiction, schools, kingston (n.y.), history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, fiction