In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant. Simultaneous.
Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story (American Girl Collection)
β Scribed by Janet Beeler Shaw
- Book ID
- 111979157
- Publisher
- Amer Girl Pub
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 9 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780937295823
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
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