Cricket Books/Carus Publishing
for How I Became an American by Karin Gündisch. Translated from the German by James Skofield

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Ten-year-old Johann recalls the hardships and triumphs of the immigrant experience in 1902, as his German family emigrates in search of the "paradise" said to lay in America. This well-researched novel has much to tell us about what it means to leave one's homeland for another.