Helga estby biography of barack obama
Biography of barack obama president.
Ages 12 and up
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Books
Hardcover, pages
ISBN 0 5
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Occasionally a story comes along that is so compelling it demands to be told -- even if it takes over a hundred years to tell it.
Such is the story of Norwegian immigrant Helga Estby and her year old daughter Clara who, in May , began walking unescorted from Mica Creek, Washington (near Spokane) to New York City, on a publicity wager that they expected would bring them $10, and save their Eastern Washington farm from foreclosure.
Helga estby biography of barack obama
The Year We Were Famous, published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Books in spring of , was written by debut author Carole Estby Dagg. Helga was her great-grandmother and Clara, her great-aunt.
Written for readers 12 and up, the novel is set in the hard times of the s.
In the midst of a severe depression brought on by a national credit shortage beginning in , the U.S. suffered severe unemployment, thousands of businesses went bankrupt, h