Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Kirsten's Story Collection
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad harvest away from starving. When Kirsten's Uncle Olav writes from America to tell about the rich farmland there, the Larsons make the decision to join him in America. Kirsten braves terrible storms and deadly disease on her journey across the ocean. After six long weeks at sea, she finally hears the welcome cry, "Land ho!" On wobbly legs, Kirsten makes her way down the ship's gangplank. What will happen now? she wonders. Will I ever feel at home in this new land? Book jacket.
Changes for Kirsten
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937295458
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937295458
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.
Kirsten's Surprise
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808580218
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808580218
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota
Kirsten Saves the Day
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9780937295915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9780937295915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.
Kirsten Story Collection
Author: Janet Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781593694548
Category : Birthdays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten's six-book series is bound in one volume. Kirsten Larson is a Swedish immigrant girl growing up in 1854 Minnesota. "With quiet strength and an open heart, she discovers the true meaning of home -- and that love is the same in any language."--Cover, p.4
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781593694548
Category : Birthdays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kirsten's six-book series is bound in one volume. Kirsten Larson is a Swedish immigrant girl growing up in 1854 Minnesota. "With quiet strength and an open heart, she discovers the true meaning of home -- and that love is the same in any language."--Cover, p.4
Kirsten Learns a Lesson
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: Amer Girl Pub
ISBN: 9780937295823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
Publisher: Amer Girl Pub
ISBN: 9780937295823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
The Ice Age
Author: Kirsten Reed
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921520744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921520744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her.
Wood, Wire, Wings
Author: Kirsten W. Larson
Publisher: Thinkingdom
ISBN: 1635924006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane. Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly. Illustrator Tracy Subisak's art brings to life author Kirsten W. Larson's story of this little-known but important engineer.
Publisher: Thinkingdom
ISBN: 1635924006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane. Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly. Illustrator Tracy Subisak's art brings to life author Kirsten W. Larson's story of this little-known but important engineer.
Kirsten and the Chippewa
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584854791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584854791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.
Kaya's Short Story Collection
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781593691196
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of stories about the life and times of Kaya, a Nez Perce girl.
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781593691196
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of stories about the life and times of Kaya, a Nez Perce girl.