Buffalo Flats
- Whitney Award – Best Young Adult Novel
- Finalist for the AML Award for young adult literature
Reviews for Buffalo Flats
Booklist
A vivid celebration of life and insightful exploration of faith, this novel proves the enduring importance of sometimes undervalued historical fiction for YAs.
Publishers Weekly
Through deliberately paced, relationship-driven storytelling overflowing with witty humor and gritty Western imagery, Leavitt ... presents Rebecca's faith as a tender, sometimes fraught, ever-evolving dynamic that honors those struggling to define themselves within religious traditions.
Horn Book
Leavitt's writing is suffused with the beauty of the earth and sky.
Kirkus
Rebecca is a funny, focused, and believable young woman who battles internally over right and wrong, especially when it comes to dealing with romantic feelings and appreciating people who are hard to get long with.
Winnipeg Free Press
A pioneer story full of accounts of inclement weather, endless labour, floods and plagues, it also shows the self-sacrifice and solidarity that held these communities together.
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
Buffalo Flats runs the gamut of emotional experiences and allows Rebecca to feel joy, love, sorrow, resentment, and more while staying true to her beliefs.
Prairie Books NOW
Stunning love letter to the land and to community.
Toronto Star
Leavitt's prose shimmers with the land's beauty, its appreciative lyricism balanced with down-to-earth spirituality and humour.
Calgary Herald
This coming-of-age historical YA fiction sensitively handles life and death issues, and beautifully emphasizes spirituality, family values and perseverance.
