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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: Anna's Prayer: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand and Shari Griffiths (Illustrator)
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Discover the 1880s tale of Anna Anderson, a child living in Sweden with her mother and her sister, Ida. The happy family doesn’t have much. Unable to afford passage herself, Anna’s mother puts the girls on a boat to the United States, hoping they will have a better life without her.Because Ida has contracted work in Idaho, the sisters separate in America and young Anna continues by train to a...