Katerina's Wish (32 page)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.

ISBN 978-1-4424-3343-4 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4424-3345-8 (eBook)

[1. Family life — Colorado — Fiction. 2. Coal mines and mining — Fiction. 3. Immigrants — Fiction. 4. Czech Americans — Fiction. 5. Colorado — History—1876-1950 — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M71275Kat 2012

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