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"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.
Author : Joan Sandin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1986-05-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064441001
"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.
Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1637580819
Lose yourself in the challenges and emotions of eighteenth-century Maine. In 1753, Johann Oberstrasse’s wife, Christianne, announces that their infant sons will never soldier for the Landgraf of Hesse like their father, hired out to serve King George of England. In search of a new life, Johann and the family join an expedition to the New World, lured by the promise of land on the Maine coast. A grinding voyage deposits them on the edge of a continent filled with dangers and disease. Expecting to till the soil, Johann finds that opportunity on the rocky coast comes from the forest, not land, so he learns carpentry and trapping. To advance in an English world, Johann adapts their name to Overstreet. But war follows them. The French and their Indian allies mount attacks on the English settlements of New England. To protect their growing family and Broad Bay neighbors, Johann accepts the captaincy of the settlement’s militia and leads the company through the British assault on the citadel of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Left behind in Broad Bay, Christianne, their small children, and the old and young stave off Indian attacks, hunger, and cruel privations. Peace brings Johann success as a carpenter, but also searing personal losses. When the fever for American independence reaches Broad Bay in 1774, Johann is torn, then resolves to kill no more…unlike his son, Franklin, who leaves to stand with the Americans on Bunker Hill. At the same time, Johann faces old demons and a new crisis when an escaped prisoner—a hired Hessian soldier, just as he had been—arrives at his door.
Author : Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674044118
One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
Author : Katharine Emsden
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1878668234
Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the century.
Author : Joan Sandin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060580771
Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.
Author : Marilynn Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551430690
A pioneer family homesteads on the prairie. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Patricia Hermes
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439368988
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142992828X
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Author : Kimberly Weinberger
Publisher : Mondo Pub
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781572558120
Elda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916.
Author : Wayne Mergler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780882408149
Mergler has scoured Alaska's literary tradition for the best writing the state has to offer. "The Last New Land" gathers a rich and comprehensive sampling of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the Northland.