Letters to Oma
Subtitle: a young German girl's account of her first year in Texas, 1847
By: Marj Gurasich ; illustrations by Barbara Mathews Whitehead.
Contributors: Whitehead, Barbara Mathews, ill.
Series: A Chaparral book
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: German Americans -- Fiction.; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; Texas -- Fiction.
Description: After her family moves from Germany to Texas in 1847, fifteen-year-old Tina chronicles in letters to her grandmother their struggle to survive in a strange new place while preserving their traditional German ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161).