Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

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

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