My Antonia

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Antonia Shimerda's family moved to the prairie to have a better life and acquire wealth. Antonia's father asked Jim to teach her English and it started a life-long friendship and unspoken love. Jim never met anyone with the warmth and friendliness of Antonia. Unfortunately, her father could not face extreme poverty and family demands and tragically committed suicide. In order to support the family, Antonia left school to care for the farm. She was forced to perform farm labor and adapt to a hard existence on the prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm.
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Details

Guided Reading Level
Z
Accelerated Reader Level
6.9
Fiction / Nonfiction
F
Author
Cather, Willa
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC

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