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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2011
In 1889 female journalist Nellie Bly completed an around-the-world voyage, a feat that narrator Clara Estby finds impressive. Poppycock, scoffs Clara's mother, Helga, an independent and resourceful Norwegian American: "Nellie Bly had it easy…What if a woman—without any help—walked on her own two feet clear across the country?" To save the family farm, that's just what Helga and seventeen-year-old Clara set out to do. Helga makes a ten-thousand-dollar bet with a publis...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
