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If You Liked Kirsten Larson, Try...

September 20, 2018 | strande

 

If you enjoyed reading about Kirsten Larson, the American Girl character who immigrates to the United States from Sweden in the 1850s, you might be interested in these titles.

Fiction

Lucky broken girl by Ruth Behar
Talking leaves by Joseph Bruchac
The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook
One good thing about America by Ruth Freeman
Inside out & back again by Thanhha Lai
Also available in: e-book
Dear Whiskers by Ann Whitehead Nagda
The turtle of Oman : a novel by Naomi Shihab Nye
Journey of dreams by Marge Pellegrino
The girl in the torch by Rob Sharenow
Also available in: e-book
Blue jasmine by Kashmira Sheth
Currents by Jane Petrlik Smolik
Save me a seat by Sarah Weeks
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook
Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | video

More copies of the print version can be found here.

Front desk by Kelly Yang
A different pond by Bao Phi

Nonfiction

A primary source investigation of Ellis Island by Caitlin Merrick
This land is our land : the history of American immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
Looks like daylight : voices of indigenous kids by Deborah Ellis
Refugees and migrants by Ceri Roberts
Cultural traditions in Sweden by Natalie Hyde
Making history : have a blast with 15 crafts : creative projects from the Minnesota Historical Society by Wendy Freshman
Sweden by Amy Rechner
What's great about Minnesota? by Nadia Higgins

Biographies

Louisa : the life of Louisa May Alcott by Yona Zeldis McDonough
The great and only Barnum : the tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
Willa : the story of Willa Cather, an American writer by Amy Ehrlich
Elizabeth leads the way : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the right to vote by Tanya Lee Stone
Who was Queen Victoria? by Jim Gigliotti
The tragic tale of Narcissa Whitman and a faithful history of the Oregon Trail by Cheryl Harness
Little author in the big woods : a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Yona Zeldis McDonough