Shaw, Janet Beeler

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Kirsten, an American girl, 1854

the American girls collection
A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life.

Kirsten's surprise

a Christmas story
2000
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

Kirsten and the new girl

2000
When a new girl arrives at school, Kirsten is jealous, completely forgetting how scared and lonely she felt the year before when she was the new girl in school. Gives instructions for making a friendship pillow like those made in the 1850s.

Kirsten on the trail

Kirsten, 1854
1999
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.

Happy birthday, Kirsten!

a springtime story
2000
On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800s, the Larson family finds time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

Changes for Kirsten , 1854

the American girls collection

Kirsten learns a lesson

a school story
2000
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 saves the day

a summer story
2000
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.

Kirsten's promise

2003
Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.

Kaya and the river girl

2003
Kaya becomes jealous of a girl from another tribe until they are forced to work together in a dangerous situation. Includes historical notes on Indian trading along the Columbia River in 1764, as well as instructions for creating a petroglyph.

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