Shaw, Janet Beeler
Meet Kirsten, an American girl Janet Shaw: Illustrated by Renee Graef - Madison, Wisconsin Pleasant Co 1986 - 61 p. - American Girls: Kirsten Series Book 1 .
Kirsten Larson and her family arrive in America in 1854, after a long sea voyage. Everything looks so different from the life Kirsten knew back in Sweden--the ways people talk and dress seem strange! Getting lost in a big city and parting with her best friend only add to Kirsten's worry. Will she ever feel at home here? It is only when the Larsons arrive at a tiny farm on the edge of the frontier that Kirsten believes Papa's promise--America will be a land filled with opportunity for them all.
650L
0937295000
juvenile fiction
Children and death
Emigration and immigration
Frontier and pioneer life
Minnesota
jSha 17
Meet Kirsten, an American girl Janet Shaw: Illustrated by Renee Graef - Madison, Wisconsin Pleasant Co 1986 - 61 p. - American Girls: Kirsten Series Book 1 .
Kirsten Larson and her family arrive in America in 1854, after a long sea voyage. Everything looks so different from the life Kirsten knew back in Sweden--the ways people talk and dress seem strange! Getting lost in a big city and parting with her best friend only add to Kirsten's worry. Will she ever feel at home here? It is only when the Larsons arrive at a tiny farm on the edge of the frontier that Kirsten believes Papa's promise--America will be a land filled with opportunity for them all.
650L
0937295000
juvenile fiction
Children and death
Emigration and immigration
Frontier and pioneer life
Minnesota
jSha 17