Long Way to a New Land, The - Book

Study The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin with our study guide and lesson plans!           Don't miss the sequel Long Way Westward HERE

HarperCollins I Can Read level 3.

In 1868, Sweden is devastated by drought and Carl Erik's family is starving. Hope reaches them when a letter from their uncle in America arrives, inviting them to "the land of opportunity." They decide to sell the farm and go to America to make a new life. The packing, the goodbyes, and the trip itself are difficult; yet the children eagerly wonder when they might get wheat bread with butter in America. Finally allowed into the country after passing through immigration, Carl Erik exclaims, "Now we are arrived."