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    The Homestead: The Dakota Series, Book 1
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    The Homestead: The Dakota Series, Book 1

    By Linda Byler

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    Hannah is a fifteen-year-old Amish girl who lives on her family’s farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When her family, hit hard by the Great Depression, loses their farm, Hannah’s father decides it’s time for a fresh start. Destitute but inspired by grand plans and dreams of a better future west of Lancaster, he loads his family and what little they have left into their covered wagon.

    They settle in North Dakota, hundreds of miles from any Amish community. Hannah’s mother does her best to be a good wife, supporting her husband as they try to build a new life in a wholly unfamiliar place.

    Things aren’t going quite as Hannah’s father had imaginedhis visions of success are shattered by the reality that his knowledge of farming in Lancaster isn’t of much use in Midwestern soil. With the fields barren and her family on the verge of starvation, Hannah decides to take matters into her own hands. She goes into town looking for a job and finds one at a cattle ranch, where she meets charismatic ranch hand Clay Jenkins.

    Clay is drawn to the independent, strong-willed newcomer. As they work together at the ranch, Hannah grapples with her own feelings for Clay, an English boy. Her life is more uncertain than ever. With Hannah’s help, will her family get back on their feet and prosper in North Dakota? And what will happen with Clay Jenkins?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Books
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9781680992120
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    The Homestead: The Dakota Series, Book 1
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    Linda Byler

    Linda Byler grew up Amish and is an active member of the Amish church today. She is the author of five bestselling fiction series, all set in the Amish world: Hester Takes Charge, Lancaster Burning, Sadie’s Montana, Lizzie Searches for Love, and The Dakota Series. In addition, Byler has written five Christmas romances: The Little Amish Matchmaker, The Christmas Visitor, Mary’s Christmas Good-Bye, Becky Meets Her Match, A Dog for Christmas, and A Horse for Elsie. Linda is also well known within the Amish community as a columnist for a weekly Amish newspaper.

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    • 4/5
      A real pioneering Amish family, traveling to North Dakota, alone, without their community, that is what is so different about this book. The time is the great depression, and the Detweiler family has hit rock bottom, and are trying for a new start with free government land.There is no support system here for this family, and yet God has a way of helping them, wherever they are. Hannah I found to be one gutsy girl, and this family sure wouldn’t have survived without her. Although, she acted like she had a chip on her shoulder, even when people were trying to help her.The author has included a lot about the differences between Pennsylvania and North Dakota as far as farming, and things become so very tough for this family. Was glad when the mom Sarah seemed to grow a backbone, and things are about to change for them, not always for the best, but we don’t get to choose.I did have a hard time getting into this book, but a few chapters in I was hooked, and then the pages flew, and I had to know what happened. Try and stick it out, you won’t be disappointed.I received this book through Edelweiss and the Publisher Good Books, and was not required to give a positive review.
    • 4/5
      The Depression was not kind to Mose Detweiler and his family. He lost his farm, and was excommunicated from his Amish community for making and selling moonshine. Though he confessed and was forgiven, he felt he needed a new start and moved his family to North Dakota. Not prepared to survive in an environment so different from the one he left, they literally nearly starve to death. Without the kindness of their neighbors, and the rugged determination of their headstrong eldest daughter, Hannah, they would not have survived. But tragedy strikes, and their lives are again turned upside down. Hannah is the driving force keeping the family together, but even she bends to her mother’s desire to return to Pennsylvania. Much happens in the first book if the trilogy. And though the novel ends, Hannah’s story does not. She must decide, sooner or later, whether to follow her Amish upbringing or to become a true Western gal and marry the son of the nearby rancher. This Amish story combines the roots of the Amish faith with the harsh realities of the west in the early twentieth century. The story is an interesting one - readers will feel the anguish and struggles as Hannah and her family try to not only survive but to succeed and grow strong and happy in this new land.