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	• A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (Dear America) Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2000 - 219 pages average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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Strength and Tradition

A Coal Miner's Bride / 0-439-05386-2

The Dear America series is renowned for its compellingly written, fictional diaries, each of which provides a window into a compelling period in our nation's history. The diaries are exceptionally entertaining and educational, for children and adults alike.

Anetka, a young Polish girl, is infuriated when her father, a coal worker in America, sends her a ticket to America that he has bought by promising her in marriage to a fellow coal worker. She arrives in America with her younger brother and a bothersome, yet very attractive soldier named Leon, only to find that her prospective husband is a boorish brute with three daughters from a previous marriage. Anetka silently accepts her wedding and unhappy marriage, shackled to a husband who does not love her and who does not treat her with tenderness, calling her 'lazy wife' daily when he returns home. Secretly, she yearns for a husband who will love her and care for her, or at least for a man whose kisses will stop her heart the way Leon's stolen kiss did, so long ago.

As Anetka struggles to create a new life with her husband and his three young daughters, a bleaker bigger picture emerges. Conditions in the coal mine are treacherous, and the bosses work their employees to death, cheating them out of their wages and refuses them safe working conditions. As the coal miners speak more of unionization, the Americans turn violent, seriously injuring and killing many of the immigrants. Anetka's spirit must remain strong as she fights to protect her new daughters from the harshness of this strange new world.

For parents, there is a significant amount of violence in this novel, including multiple beatings of immigrant workers, and the wholesale slaughter of the strikers when the bosses fire on the unarmed strikers. The issue of sexuality is handled delicately, but very young children may wonder what Anetka means when she sorrowfully notes that, in bed at night, her new husband "does not kiss me afterwards". What, exactly, she means by "afterwards" is left to parental discretion to explain.

This compellingly written novel is a fast read and brought tears to my eyes. It is impossible not to admire Anetka's spirit and determination, and it is easy to forget that she is so very young, when she is so very loving and wise. There is much good to be had here, including an accurate and important portrayal of the importance of unions in our country's history.

~ Ana Mardoll

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Every Young Girl Should Read this Book

Unlike most books, this books weaves the more likely realities of life: disappointments, hardships. It portrays a young girl who evolves into a beautiful, loving, STRONG woman. I LOVED THIS BOOK! Do youself a favor, Mothers, and get this book for your daughters. It shows how life presents unexpected events, bad and good. How stoicism, perseverance and faith prevail. Yet it is also optimistic. It also presents the spiritual way of coping, without proselytizing. Bravo to the author, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. A fabulous book -- I fell lucky to have read it.

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very good

I really enjoyed the book, because it was historic and romance. I read the book in one day because i really wanted to know the ending. The begining is a little slow, but it starts getting intresting. It's tempting to know what will happen with her and stanley, her and the girls and her and america.

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A Must Have!!!

If you love reading about stories in historical times, this is the book for you. I love the Dear America series very much. I've been collecting them since they first came out. I've always wanted to check out this one and I'm very interested in how people work in the coal mines. Add this to your collection today and gather around with your friends and relatives or just enjoy reading to yourself in front of the fireplace.
-Brittany Anderson age: 24A Coal Miner's Bride: the Diary of Anetka Kaminska

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I loved it!

this book was very good! i love historical fiction and A Coal Miners bride is just that! I fell in love with Leon the the romantic boy! it has a sweet ending and not like many romance books it is appropiate which is very important to me. i will admit some parts were a little boring but that can be easily forgotten with leon.

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.