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Meet Kirsten, an American girl : 1854  Cover Image Book Book

Meet Kirsten, an American girl : 1854 / by Janet Shaw ; illustrations, Renée Graef ; vignettes, Paul Lackner.

Shaw, Janet Beeler, 1937- (Author). Graef, Renee, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780937295007
  • ISBN: 0937295000
  • ISBN: 9780937295014
  • ISBN: 0937295019
  • ISBN: 9780937295793
  • ISBN: 0937295795
  • Physical Description: 61 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Pleasant Co., ©1986.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Lexile: 650.
Subject: Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile fiction.
Swedish American girls > Fiction.
Swedes in Minnesota > Fiction.
Larson, Kirsten (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Nineteenth century > Fiction.
Children of immigrants > Fiction.
Nine-year-old girls > Fiction.


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