Chick Grit

<p>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 clever and tightly paced YA romp. <strong>-- Kirkus Reviews </strong></p><p><em>Finalist 2021 Book Buyers Best ContestYoung Adult Category</em></p><p>Fifteen-year-old Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall is spending her summer in retro hell. </p><p>Her 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-even though Chloe doesn't wear fur and doesn't date mountain men.</p><p>She's 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 campground's Teen Activities Group dis and dismiss her as a gritless asphalt brat.</p><p>Chloe's an unhappy camper until she meets Zach a hot boy in buckskins with a matching horse. It's crush at first sight for Chloe and she's determined to prove to Zach and his friends that city girls do have grit. Chick grit.</p><p>But when a natural disaster strikes the campground will Chloe's chick grit be enough to save a child's life-and her own? </p><p>81000 words</p>