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Balt-i-mo Ha-bo (harbor), chants the dockhand. What a strange place! Dirt and noise; white people rushing, yelling; black people pulling, pushing! Can this be America? While Katie guards her chest, she finds a lemon, and in it a seed of hope.

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title Katie and the Lemon Tree author Bender Esther Keenan Joy - photo 1

title:Katie and the Lemon Tree
author:Bender, Esther.; Keenan, Joy Dunn
publisher:Herald Press
isbn10 | asin:0836136578
print isbn13:9780836136579
ebook isbn13:9780585262895
language:English
subjectEmigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction, German Americans--Juvenile fiction, Christian life--Juvenile fiction, Family life--Juvenile fiction.
publication date:1994
lcc:PS3552.E53B4 1994eb
ddc:813.54
subject:Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction, German Americans--Juvenile fiction, Christian life--Juvenile fiction, Family life--Juvenile fiction.
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Katie and the Lemon Tree
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Books by Esther Bender
Katie and the Lemon Tree, 1994
Shadow at Sun Lake, 1995
April Bluebird, 1995
The Crooked Tree, 1996
A Study Guide for
Katie and the Lemon Tree,
(Treasure Hunt Series,
Johns Hopkins University
Teacher-Training Program)
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Katie and the Lemon Tree
Esther Bender
Illustrated by Joy Dunn Keenan
HERALD PRESS
Scottdale, Pennsylvania
Waterloo, Ontario
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bender, Esther, 1942
Katie and the lemon tree / Esther Bender ; illustrated by
Joy Dunn Keenan.
p. cm.
Summary: Chronicles the life of Katie and her husband
Daniel who emigrate from Germany to the United States to
build a life for themselves and their family, while struggling
to keep the religious faith so important in Katie's
upbringing.
ISBN 0-8361-3657-8 (permanent paper)
[1. Emigration and immigrationFiction. 2. Frontier
and pioneer lifeFiction. 3. German AmericansFiction.
4. Christian lifeFiction. 5. Family lifeFiction.]
I. Keenan, Joy Dunn. 1952 ill. II. Title.
PZ7.B43137Kat 1994
[Fic]dc20 94-2581
CIP
AC
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The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Scripture is adapted from The Holy Bible, King James Version.
KATIE AND THE LEMON TREE
Copyright 1994 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683
Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press,
Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 94-2581
International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3657-8
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Jim Butti
03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
9,000 copies in print
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To my mother,
for hours and hours of reading
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Contents
The Promise! The Dream!
9
1. Farewell to Friends
13
2. Farewell to Family
19
3. Journey by Faith
24
4. Can This Be America?
26
5. Journey's End
31
6. Settling In
34
7. Planting the Seed
36
8. Seed Money
41
9. Sweet Harvest
45
10. The Stone Pile
48
11. The Price of a Tree
52
12. Longings
55
13. Passing Years
59
14. Remembering
64
15. Risking It All
68
16. Pruning
71
17. Swellings
75
18. Bees' Work
77
19. Evening
80
20. A New Generation
84
Notes
90
Bible References
92
The Author
93

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The Promise! The Dream!
We all remember the Pilgrims who came to America for religious freedom in the 1600s. Then in the 1700s and 1800sfrom England, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and other countriesmen, women, and children streamed across the ocean to North America.
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