The Long Way to a New Land

A fine choice for an early reader. Sandin tells about a fictional family from Sweden immigrating to the US. It's not one I consider a must-read, but it is a good book to check out from the library.

The Long Way to a New Land

Summary:
There was no rain fall all one summer when Carl Erick's father received a letter from Uncle Axel from America. Carl Erick's father informs the family that they are going to America. They ride a train to Liverpool then took a steamboat to America. While on the steamboat some of the passengers got sick, and one passenger died, Carl Erick's father was given a book of English phrases written by a Swedish passenger on the boat. The family arrives in America and the father, whose name is Anders gets a job, and plans to build a house soon.

Reaction:
I enjoyed the story and the pictures of the story. I thought the pictures did a very good job at showing the family at many different stages throughout their show more journey. The setting of the story was on a train, and a steamboat as the family traveled to America. The character of the father, Anders is a loving father and husband that is trying to provide for his family. He sees the only way to do that is to travel to America. I found it difficult to relate to this story because I have never moved in my life.

Extension Ideas:
1.The story can be an introduction to a unit on immigration.
2.The story shows the hardships immigrants went through coming to America.
3.The story shows two different ways immigrants traveled to America. show less

"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. Can they endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away?

This is a tale of a Swedish family in 1868 that got the chance to migrate to America to begin a new life.

This is definetly a good story to teach children how many families had to struggle to survive and how our ancestry came from other countries.

I would tell this story and try to have the children imagine where their families may have come from.

week 1 (2nd book in week 1)

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340L,GRL L,GL 3.3,2 copies