Song of the Lark (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

The Song of the Lark tells a tale of struggle and courage in which a determined protagonist forges a self equal to a wild and outsized land.  However, the heroic figure at the center of this story is not a woodsman or an explorer as in most frontier novels.  Thea Kronborg is a young girl growing up in a small Colorado town with a "secret something" inside her, and what she must conquer is not a pe...