The promised land
By: Isabelle Holland.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; Foster home care -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Fiction.; Kansas -- Fiction.
Description: Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.