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    Harvesting Faith: Planting Dreams, #3
    Planting Dreams: Planting Dreams
    Cultivating Hope: Planting Dreams, #2
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    Planting Dreams Series

    By Linda K. Hubalek and Linda K. Hubalek

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    Planting Dreams: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America, 1868-1869
    Planting Dreams Series, Book 1

    Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country in 1868, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place? 
    This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson (author Linda Hubalek's ancestor), as she ponders the decision to leave her homeland, travel to America, and worries about her family's future in a new country.
    Each chapter is written as a thought-provoking story as the family travels to a new country to find a new life. 
    Why did this family leave? Drought scorched the farmland of Sweden and there was no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes were due and there was little money to pay them. But there were ships sailing to America, where the government gave land to anyone who wanted to claim a homestead.
    Follow Charlotta and her family as they travel by ship and rail from Sweden, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButterfield Books Inc.
    Release dateJan 20, 2016
    Harvesting Faith: Planting Dreams, #3
    Planting Dreams: Planting Dreams
    Cultivating Hope: Planting Dreams, #2

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Cultivating Hope: Planting Dreams, #2
      Cultivating Hope: Planting Dreams, #2

      Cultivating Hope: Planting Dreams, #2

      Linda K. Hubalek
      4/5 - 1 rating
      4/5 - 1 rating

      Can you imagine being isolated in the middle of treeless grassland with only a dirt roof over your head? Having to feed your children with whatever wild plants or animals you could find living on the prairie? Sweating to plow the sod, plant the seed, cultivate the crop—only to lose it all by a hailstorm right before you harvest it? This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America's Great Plains during the 1800's. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family- but not with a price. Readers compare Hubalek's books as a combination of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" books, "The Emigrants" series by Vilhelm Moberg, and a Willa Cather novel.

      Can you imagine being isolated in the middle of treeless grassland with only a dirt roof over your head? Having to feed your children with whatever wild plants or animals you could find living on the prairie? Sweating to plow the sod, plant the seed, cultivate the crop—only to lose it all by a hailstorm right before you harvest it? This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America's Great Plains during the 1800's. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family- but not with a price. Readers compare Hubalek's books as a combination of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" books, "The Emigrants" series by Vilhelm Moberg, and a Willa Cather novel.

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      Harvesting Faith: Planting Dreams, #3
      Harvesting Faith: Planting Dreams, #3

      Harvesting Faith: Planting Dreams, #3

      Linda K. Hubalek
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      Imagine surveying your farmstead on the last day of your life, reviewing the decades of joys, hardships, and changes that have taken place on the eighty acres you have called home for the past fifty years. Would you feel at peace or find remorse at the decisions that took place in your life? This third book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson as she recalls the events that shaped her family's destiny. A mixture of fact and fiction, based on the author's family, this book reviews the events that shaped this Swedish immigrants family as her children reached adulthood and had families of their own. Join Charlotta as she reminisces about the important places and events in her past as she bids farewell to her mortal life on the Kansas prairie.

      Imagine surveying your farmstead on the last day of your life, reviewing the decades of joys, hardships, and changes that have taken place on the eighty acres you have called home for the past fifty years. Would you feel at peace or find remorse at the decisions that took place in your life? This third book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Charlotta Johnson as she recalls the events that shaped her family's destiny. A mixture of fact and fiction, based on the author's family, this book reviews the events that shaped this Swedish immigrants family as her children reached adulthood and had families of their own. Join Charlotta as she reminisces about the important places and events in her past as she bids farewell to her mortal life on the Kansas prairie.

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      Planting Dreams: Planting Dreams

      Planting Dreams: Planting Dreams

      Linda K. Hubalek
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      Planting Dreams: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America, 1868-1869 Planting Dreams Series, Book 1 Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country in 1868, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place?  This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson (author Linda Hubalek's ancestor), as she ponders the decision to leave her homeland, travel to America, and worries about her family's future in a new country. Each chapter is written as a thought-provoking story as the family travels to a new country to find a new life.  Why did this family leave? Drought scorched the farmland of Sweden and there was no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes were due and there was little money to pay them. But there were ships sailing to America, where the government gave land to anyone who wanted to claim a homestead. Follow Charlotta and her family as they travel by ship and rail from Sweden, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.

      Planting Dreams: A Swedish Immigrant's Journey to America, 1868-1869 Planting Dreams Series, Book 1 Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country in 1868, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place?  This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson (author Linda Hubalek's ancestor), as she ponders the decision to leave her homeland, travel to America, and worries about her family's future in a new country. Each chapter is written as a thought-provoking story as the family travels to a new country to find a new life.  Why did this family leave? Drought scorched the farmland of Sweden and there was no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes were due and there was little money to pay them. But there were ships sailing to America, where the government gave land to anyone who wanted to claim a homestead. Follow Charlotta and her family as they travel by ship and rail from Sweden, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.

    Author

    Linda K. Hubalek

    Linda Hubalek grew up on the Kansas prairie, always wanting to be a farmer like her parents and ancestors. After earning a college degree in Agriculture, marriage took Linda away from Kansas as her husband worked on engineering jobs in several states.

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