Ingeborg, her husband Roald, and their son immigrate to America with high hopes in 1880. When New York doesn't measure up to their expectations, they continue westward until reaching the Dakota territory. The family must stuggle to achieve their dream.

My dear Beth, Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents' blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner. But the need is great and Hattie Bridger and the children are so endearing. As for Dirk Bridger, he is...

Mothers. Fathers. Sisters. Brothers. Family. For many years people have arrived on the shores of a country called America from all corners of the World al under the light of Lady Liberty's radiant flame. Coming with hopes, dreams, and determination, generations of immigrants have made their new country diverse, vivid and welcoming. Newberry honoree Margarita Engle and award winning illustrator Raul Colon have created a picture book that is a vibrant...

"On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower deck. Delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions...

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

In the midst of running a long-shot political campaign, Democratic political consultant John Simon (a thinly-disguised version of author John Shallman) discovers a 100-year-old manuscript written by his grandfather Joseph, a brilliant young revolutionary whose exile to Siberia by the last czar of Russia is just the beginning of an extraordinary tale of survival, romance, and revolution. As Joseph's manuscript is translated, chapter-by-chapter, the...