Impetuous: Mattie's Story

by Jude Watson

Book Overview

The fourth in this exciting series filled with all the romance and adventure of the Wild West. Mattie Nesbitt merely wants to escape a life of poverty, but soon discovers she can make her own way . .... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068980329X
• ISBN13: 9780689803291
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

REALLY good.

Mattie was the younger Nesbitt girl, but she was always the courageous girl of the family. She decided to bring her sister along with her to the West so they could find some good husbands. Ivy being the more girly girl she is lands a husband with ease, but Mattie who prefers pants to dresses has SO much trouble. After awhile Mattie decides to just work and have a vacation from all this huband seeking. So she decides to work for the Pony Express. She meets up with Sam again after they met at a dance, but Sam doesn't know that Matt is really Mattie, because she got a makeover. A big makeover. And then the romance begins....

Interesting Introduction to Romance for Teenagers

The plot was fascinating, kind of like the picture brides of the past. Fierce women are shipped to a town, believing it's a large city, only to find it be be out in the middle of nowhere. Females will love these romances, adults may also. Very graphic at times, but nothing raunchy.For the next generation of Danielle Steel and Sandra Brown readers, this is where you start.

Great book!

17 year old Mattie came to California to find a husband so she wouldn't be fated to live a life of loneliness and poverty. But she discovers that here, disguised as a boy, she can make her own way by riding the Pony Express. But when Mattie falls in love, how can she keep from revealing who she really is/