Hallie isn’t afraid of anything-that is, anything but storms, which she braves along with her grandmother, huddled beneath a special quilt. When her family joins a wagon train headed west, leaving her grandmother-and everything Hallie has ever known-behind, Hallie knows she will have to be braver than she’s ever been before. But can she summon the courage to help a young buffalo stuck on a rocky ridge during a wild storm The Newbery medalist Katherine Applegate has paired lyrical text with gorgeous watercolors throughout.