The Story of Johann: The Boy Who Longed to Come to America

by Mela Meisner Lindsay, Mela M. Linsay

Book by Lindsay, Mela Meisner, Linsay, Mela M.

190 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Mela Meisner Lindsay was born of Volga-German parents in Kindsvater Chutor on the Don Artchada in South Russia, near the Don Cossack border. Her father, David Phillip Meisner, was born in Tscherbokowka; her mother, Eva Elisabeth Dietz, in Podschinnaja (Kratzke). The family came to the United States in the spring of 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, in which her father served as a soldier of the czar. They settled on a farm south of WaKeeney, Trego County, Kansas. - from http://www.beckyjamison.com/2/post/20...

Reviews

[Anna Dalhaimer Bartkowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the details of village life and chores of every family member. And the emotions of a young boy with a dream.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Speaks of the daily life in a Volga village for a teenage boy, Johann, his daily chores, activities with his friends and a trip to Saratov.