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From: Penny Johnson <newadventures>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:28:00 -0500
Charlotte's Rose by A.E. Cannon is one of my favorite immigrant stories. (I just discovered it last fall!!) My own ancestors traveled the Mormon Trail, so I've heard "pioneer stories" my entire life. But this account of a twelve-year-old Welsh girl and her father crossing the plains in a handcart company heightened my appreciation for what immigrants were and are willing to endure for the privilege of living in a "promised land." The characters in this story were human, with bitterness, grief, and depression they had to walk through just as certainly as they had to walk through the barren plains. Pioneer children did more than just sing as they walked and walked and walked.
Penny Johnson Teen Library Specialist Baraboo, WI
Megan Schliesman wrote:
>**Today we begin our discussion of immigrants and immigration in
>literature for children and young adults.
>
>Ann Jaramillo?s "La Linea" chronicles the harrowing journey of new
>arrivals crossing the border illegally from* *Mexico into the United
>States. //"1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving" offers insight into some of
>the earliest new arrivals to the continent and their relationship with
>the American Indians they encountered. Amelia Lau Carling's "Mama and
>Papa Have a Store" is about a Chinese family that emigrated to
>Guatemala. Beverley Naidoo's "The Other Side of Truth" chronicles
>refugees fleeing from Nigeria to Britain.
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>There are dozens of immigrant stories in literature for children and
>teens. What are some of your favorites, and why?
>
>Megan
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Received on Fri 04 May 2007 06:28:00 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:28:00 -0500
Charlotte's Rose by A.E. Cannon is one of my favorite immigrant stories. (I just discovered it last fall!!) My own ancestors traveled the Mormon Trail, so I've heard "pioneer stories" my entire life. But this account of a twelve-year-old Welsh girl and her father crossing the plains in a handcart company heightened my appreciation for what immigrants were and are willing to endure for the privilege of living in a "promised land." The characters in this story were human, with bitterness, grief, and depression they had to walk through just as certainly as they had to walk through the barren plains. Pioneer children did more than just sing as they walked and walked and walked.
Penny Johnson Teen Library Specialist Baraboo, WI
Megan Schliesman wrote:
>**Today we begin our discussion of immigrants and immigration in
>literature for children and young adults.
>
>Ann Jaramillo?s "La Linea" chronicles the harrowing journey of new
>arrivals crossing the border illegally from* *Mexico into the United
>States. //"1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving" offers insight into some of
>the earliest new arrivals to the continent and their relationship with
>the American Indians they encountered. Amelia Lau Carling's "Mama and
>Papa Have a Store" is about a Chinese family that emigrated to
>Guatemala. Beverley Naidoo's "The Other Side of Truth" chronicles
>refugees fleeing from Nigeria to Britain.
>
>There are dozens of immigrant stories in literature for children and
>teens. What are some of your favorites, and why?
>
>Megan
>
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