[.ca] Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (ISBN 0937295019)

From Sweden to New York to Chicago to home:
I just finished reading "Meet Kirsten" I loved it a lot. This book is about a Swedish girl named Kirsten. Kirsten has to leave Sweden, the land she knew, to go live with her cousins. To get there she has to go on to a boat that goes to NY, a train that goes to Chicago and the rest of the way they walk to Minnesota! Sound hard? No kidding. Pioneers who made journeys like that were called immigrants. I thought "Meet Kirsten's "A Peek Into the Past was awesome! It even had a map of Kirsten's travels! Not only are they good stories but they are also history lessons. I would very highly recommend this book to a friend .

A wonderful book:
Meet Kirsten is a sad but good book. Kirsten is a nine-year-old Swedish girl traveling to America to live on the frontier in 1854. She and her family make a long and dangerous journey by ship. On the way, Kirsten's best friend Marta dies. But there is joy when Kirsten's family reach their farm and Kirsten meets her aunt, uncle, and two cousins.

Our 5 year old daughter enjoys these books!:
I have read the first two in the Kirsten AG series with my 5 year old daughter. I love the fact that Kirsten is polite and respectful to her elders. You don't find books that portray parents as anything less than idiots, these days. The pictures were beautiful, and the story simple enough for our daughter to follow. I can only pray that AG keeps putting out wholesome products like this!

My cool but sad story.:
I read a book that was an American girls book. I liked the book because it was full of excitement. It's about a girl named Kristen. She came from Sweden to live in American with another family.In the family was Kirsten's friend. I liked these books. Do you think all of them well make it? I recomend this to girls who love sad stories.

Another great American Girl book:
This is another in the American Girls Short Stories series about Kirsten Larson, a nine-year-old girl from Sweden. This is the first book in this series. In it, we meet Kirsten on the Eagle, a sailing ship bringing her and her family from Sweden to America in 1854. Leaving behind the life she knew, Kirsten sails across the wide Atlantic, takes her first ever train ride, sees several big cities, and begins her new life in frontier Minnesota. It is a journey mixing joy and grief, and fear and happiness. This book is quite fascinating, showing the joys and dangers in the life of an immigrant to the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Kirsten is adorable, and yet teaches the young reader. As an added bonus, the book contains a final chapter that provides a great deal of information on the experiences of immigrants in that time. As always, Renee Graef's illustrations are plentiful and beautifully done, adding greatly to the story. My nine-year-old daughter loves these books, and I must admit that reading them with her has kindled my own interest in my Swedish ancestors. This is a great book!