num_pages: 59
description: Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
language: English
title: Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
titlecomplete: Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (American Girls: Kirsten, #1)
characters: Kirsten Larson
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Classics, American History, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Chapter Books, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 15949
places: New York City, New York, Minnesota
series: American Girl: Kirsten
publisher: Scholastic Inc