Books like The settlers (The emigrants) by Vilhelm Moberg

The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities on a farm in that era will captivate the imaginations of young and old alike. This series also contains the titles Little House on the Prairie, On The Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Farmer Boy, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years. They inspired the popular, 1970s television series Little House on the Prairie.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl. Kirsten has a hard time in her new American school because she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with the Larson family. Kirsten's only escape is playing with her secret friend Singing Bird, the Indian girl. When Singing Bird suggests running away forever, Kirsten must decide where she belongs. Kirsten does learn some important lessons in school, but she learns something even more important about herself. - Back cover.

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel The Breadwinner is trapped inside her family's one-room home. That is, until the Taliban hauls away her father and Parvana realizes that it's up to her to become the "breadwinner" and disguise herself as a boy to support her mother, two sisters, and baby brother.

Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.

It's July 4, 1876, and Walter Fisk is celebrating America's one hundredth birthday in his new home of Minneapolis. These are exciting times, but they also have their difficulties for Walter. When Walter's cousin Polly Stevenson introduces him to Grant LaPierre, Walter Finally finds a friend in Minneapolis. They share an interest in the game of baseball, but Grant has a secret he doesn't want to share with Walter. Will Walter ever learn Grant's secret?

While nine-year-old Nancy is staying with her adopted Swedish grandparents for a year, everyone tries to figure out how she can celebrate a name day since her name isn't Swedish.

In 1854, ten-year-old Kirsten, living with her family in Minnesota, meets a raiding party of Ojibway Indians and finds unexpected help when her dog is in danger.

Swedish family make long, arduous journey across the Atlantic to America.

**"...Day In and Day Out his whispered prayers and skilled, surgeon's hands managed to save many a life from the ravages of dreaded cancer..."**

Nine-year-old Kirsten keeps her friendship with a Sioux Indian girl a secret until Kirsten's little brother becomes lost in the woods. Includes a section on Sioux Indians and a project related to the story.

Editor: I have read all of this 4 book series, except one, Dear Daughter, and only because it hasn't yet shown up in our local Community Thrift Store. **Historically speaking, the telling of this families move to America and their lives thereafter, all four books in this series must be not only protected, but read, shared and discussed. Some of it is heartbreaking; all of it is heartwarming.** I'm sure you too will be captivated as you read the retelling of each of the stories of this immigrant family. **The Amazon customer below, says it all:** **amazon.com customer: July 12, 2014, Wayne S. Walker, 5 of 5 stars, sad at the end, yet triumphant** Three books by **Thyra Ferré Björn** were recommended to us by several people: **Papa’s Wife, Papa’s Daughter, and Mama’s Way.** **- Papa’s Wife** is the story of a young woman named **Maria Skogberg** who comes to work at a small-town parsonage in Lapland, Sweden, and marries an older Swedish minister, **Pontus Franzon**; they have eight children and eventually emigrate to the United States. The plot is loosely based on the experiences of the author’s own parents and family. **- Papa’s Daughter** continues with the life of their oldest daughter, Charlotta, known as Button, who marries, has a family, and becomes a noted speaker and author. It appears that the novel is semi-autobiographical. **- Mama’s Way** is a collection of incidents that occurred during Mrs. Bjorn’s experiences of speaking and writing in which she applied the philosophy that she learned from Mama to help others with their problems. **The three books have been published together as a Trilogy.** However, we recently learned that **there was a fourth book in the series** which we found at a used book sale. - In **Dear Papa**, the children are all grown up with families of their own, and Mama is now a widow living in Miami, FL. Recovering from a heart attack, she decides to write Papa a letter, describing all that has happened to the family since his death and reminiscing about various humorous events from the days that are past. The Prologue brings the reader up to date by reviewing Mama’s proposal to Papa, the births of the children, and their life in America. The author says, **“Although my stories are always based on fact, I don’t want my readers to take them too literally …. I take so much fact and so much fiction and mix them long and carefully together in imagination’s big mixing bowl, until I myself cannot tell one from the other.”** Delightful reading, it is sad at the end, yet there is a triumphant feeling.