Agnes's Rescue

The True Story of an Immigrant Girl

af Karl Beckstrand, m.fl.

#1 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) series. Experience a true American adventure through the eyes of a child who walked it. Nine-year-old Agnes hopes for a better life in the United States--but will she survive the journey to her new home? (Children 6 - 11 years, first - sixth grades) Leaving her brother in Scotland (her father already lost at sea), Agnes sails with her mother and siblings to New York in 1856. They take a train to the edge of the Western Frontier in Iowa then walk 1... (Læs mere)