Planting Dreams (Book 1 in the Planting Dreams book series)
Book Details
Author(s)
Linda K. Hubalek
Publisher
Butterfield Books
ISBN / ASIN
1886652112
ISBN-13
9781886652118
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#1,275,449
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Drought has scorched the farmland of Sweden and there is no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes are due and there is little money to pay them.
But there is a ship sailing for America, where the government is giving land to anyone who wants to claim a homestead.
So begins ta migration out of Sweden to a new life on the Great Plains of America.
Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place?
This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotte Jonson as she ponders these questions about her journey and her family future in a new country.
Follow charlotte and her family as they travel by ship and rail from their homeland in 1868, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.
But there is a ship sailing for America, where the government is giving land to anyone who wants to claim a homestead.
So begins ta migration out of Sweden to a new life on the Great Plains of America.
Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place?
This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotte Jonson as she ponders these questions about her journey and her family future in a new country.
Follow charlotte and her family as they travel by ship and rail from their homeland in 1868, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.
