Susan Campbell Bartoletti

A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.

The Diary of Anetka Kaminska

A Coal Miner's Bride

Missy Zuber 

My absolute favourite of the Dear America diary series. 
The whole coal miner and their life in a small patch town story line speaks to me since my ancestors worked and lived a place very similar to the one in the book.

Meredith Rose

I finished reading this last month and am just now getting around to reviewing it!  A Coal Miner's Bride  was definitely one of the most realistic and painful Dear Americas I've read. While Anetka and her story are fictitious, you truly feel for her through every pain and trial she endures. What I loved most about this book is how it opened my eyes to the difficulties and prejudice that immigrants from all over the world endured during this time period. It also really put into perspective the things I stress over in my life. While there are always reasons for anxiety and fear, it is also good to remember how blessed we are to live in America in this day and age, and it's books like this that can remind us of it.

Jeni Enjaian

A review from my old blog...

A Coal Miner's Bride drew me in from the beginning. Anetka is a spunky girl who ends up traveling to the United States to marry a man she's never met although she's already starting to fall in love with a young man traveling with her to America. I loved this story though it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that for the majority of the story Anetka is only thirteen and fourteen.

Sent from Poland to Pennsylvania to be married to a coal miner, thirteen-year-old Anetka lives a totally new life in a harsh environment she doesn't understand, in this latest addition to the Dear America series.

A Coal Miner's Bride The Diary of Anetka Kaminska

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