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Letters to Oma : a young German girl's account of her first year in Texas, 1847 / Marj Gurasich ; illustrations by Barbara Mathews Whitehead.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.U65 L48 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurasich, Marj.
- Series:
- Chaparral book
- A Chaparral book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German Americans--Texas--Juvenile fiction.
- German Americans.
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- German Americans--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Texas--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- After her family moves from Germany to Texas in 1847, fifteen-year-old Tina chronicles in letters to her grandmother their struggle to survive in a strange new place while preserving their traditional German ways.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0875650376
- 9780875650371
- OCLC:
- 18832939
- Publisher Number:
- 99963781677
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