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21) A song of joy
Author
Series
Under northern skies volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on the farm. Her employer, Mrs. Schoenleber, gives her more and more responsibility and experience, including recommending new opportunities for her philanthropy. Still new to America herself, Nilda focuses on the area's immigrant community, but she'll have to fight to get her ideas accepted by the locals and donors...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
25) A different pond
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
27) The ticket
Author
Publisher
Langdon Street Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A novel based on the lives of the author's grandparents, who immigrate to the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming from Germany and endure hardships of the Great Depression, world wars, and the loss of a son. "The Ticket is an unforgettable and touching account of a true American family, filled with ambition, promises, love and loss, and ultimately, a legacy of survival."--P. [4] of cover.
28) The gift
Author
Publisher
Maupin House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Throughout their journey to America and their first summers on the prairie, music eases the way for an immigrant family, but when loneliness, worry, and hard winters cause her mother to stop singing, a young girl finds a way to bring music back into their lives.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother's and father's suicides. Ellin writes to her relatives in Chicago, pleading for help. Joining 16 million other immigrants who leave their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long, difficult journey fraught with hardships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...
32) The two brothers
Author
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont.
33) Her abundant joy
Author
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1846, German immigrant Mariel Wolffe tries to escape her past, and the abusive man that she works for, and find love in the arms of a Texas ranger, but war with Mexico threatens to shatter any chance they may have together.
Author
Language
English
Description
the place where millions of newcomers to the United States began new lives. It was a place of joy, hope and sometimes sadness. Along with the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island remains an inspiring symbol of freedom and opportunity for generations of Americans. Tells how to trace your family history.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of four generations of an Italian American family, beginning with an immigrant who came through Ellis Island with big dreams, a small shovel, and his parents' good advice: "Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family."
38) My 'Antonia
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1918
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, andfamily tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this story based on true events, a treasured wooden chair is passed down from family to family, with each new owner carving the word "welcome" in a new language.
40) The ninth hour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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