True Grit - Hardcover

?Teens will be drawn into the book's adventure-packed storyline.? --"School Library Journal"

?[Portis] respects his young narrator as a human being with a fully developed moral sensibility, even when the adults in the novel don?t. ? Mattie is a tenacious new kind of teen heroine? --"Los Angeles Times"

"Most teenage girls in movies are more like Valley girls, but Mattie, she's driven, determined. This character is about getting the job done." -- Hailee Steinfeld (Mattie)

"The book is about the empowerment of this girl, her drive and ferocity, the title ultimately applies to her." --Scott Rudin, producer of "True Grit", the movie starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld

"True Grit" tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the killer into Indian Territory. "True Grit" is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.