Meet Kristen: An American Girl
by Janet Shaw
This novel is one from the American Girls series. The book is centered around Kirsten, who is a nine-year-old. She and her family go through obstacles while they journey from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854. When the difficult traveling is over, Kirsten and her family settle on a farm on the Minnesota frontier. The story tells about hardships Kirsten faces such as making friends with another little girl, named Marta, while on the ship then being seperated away from her upon thier arrival to New York. In New York, Kirsten struggles when she is seperated from her father around crowds and people who speak various, unrecognizable languages to Kirsten. Kirsten and her family have to travel by foot, steamboat and train to reach their new destination, and home, in Minnesota with Uncle Olav and his family.
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