To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey

by Barbara Carney-Coston

A young Croatian girl travels to America hoping to heal her father in 1880s northern Michigan.

In 1886, eleven-year-old Mihaela embarks on a journey from Croatia to the Keweenaw Peninsula, also known as Michigan's Copper Country. Mihaela's papa had made the trip two years beforehand in order to work in the copper mines so that he could send money back home, but a painful eye disease has left him vulnerable in a new land and in need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343635
• ISBN13: 9780814343630
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7