Vilhelm Moberg’s Unto a Good Land continues the story of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson’s band of Swedish emigrants from Småland, southern Sweden, from New York where the group landed at the end of the first book in this series to Washington County in Minnesota, near Stillwater. The group make their way by riverboat, train,Continue reading “Book Review: Unto a Good Land”
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Book Review: Uprising
The young adult historical novel, Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a well-researched and well-written story of immigrant teenage girls forced to take on adult responsibilities without protection from family or education. One of the three chief characters is the exception–she has abandoned the wealth and advantages of her birth when she realizes her fatherContinue reading “Book Review: Uprising”
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