About the Author
Melissa Ostrom teaches English literature at Genesee Community College in Batavia, New York. Her short fiction has been published in several literary magazines. The Beloved Wild is her YA debut. She lives in western New York with her family. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part Two
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Part Three
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by Melissa Ostrom
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ostrom, Melissa, author.
Title: The beloved wild / Melissa Ostrom.
Description: First edition. | New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2018. | Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family’s New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017017604 (print) | LCCN 2017035743 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250132802 (EBook) | ISBN 9781250132796 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Frontier and pioneer life—New York (State)—Fiction. | Brothers and sisters—Fiction. | Sex role—Fiction. | Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)—History—19th century—Fiction. | New York (State)—History—1775–1865—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.O85 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.1.O85 Bel 2018 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017017604
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First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, March 2018
eISBN 9781250132802
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