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Murphy, Jim
WEST TO A LAND OF PLENTY : DIARY OF TERESA ANGELINO VIS CARDI (DEAR AMERICA SERIES)
New York : Scholastic, 1998.
IL 5-8 RL 4.8
ISBN 0590738887
This is the fictionalized diary of Teresa Angelino Vis Cardi. Teresa is an Italian immigrant who is traveling with her large family to the Idaho territory in the 1880's. The journey is not easy and we follow the family's struggles through the diary entries. This is another entry in the DEAR AMERICA SERIES of diaries.
SUBJECTS:     Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
                        Sisters -- Fiction
                        Italian Americans -- Fiction
                        Diaries -- Fiction

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