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How I Became an American

written by Karin Gündisch, translated by James Skofield

120 pages · 2001

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In 1902, ten-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans.

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