Image description front: A girl in a blue plaid dress walks through golden fields toward distant hills under a soft sky, with a large pink wild rose in the foreground. 

Image description back: A girl in a blue plaid dress walks through golden fields toward distant hills under a soft sky, with a large pink wild rose in the foreground. 

Back cover text: Katy: The Little Rose From Ukraine begins the true story of Katherina Mueller, the oldest daughter of Christian Mueller. Christian's six daughters and one son would become the foundation for a large, connected
family in East Freeman, South Dakota. NE HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS AGO, little Katy Mueller was barely five years old, living in the small village of Futtor in Ukraine, Russia, with her father, moth- er, baby sister, aunts, uncles, and eleven cousins. These Swiss German Mennonites had been living peacefully for over one hundred years in Futtor when suddenly the Russian govern- ment decided to Russianize them, taking away their religious
freedoms and making them serve in the Russian military. These abrupt changes to their lifestyle compelled eleven Ger-
man-Russian families to seek a new home in the United States. Travel with this first group of Mennonite families on wagons and trains across Russia, Austria, Germany, and En- gland. Then, climb aboard the steamship S.S. City of Rich- mond as they battle the Atlantic Ocean and eventually land at Castle Garden, New York. Finally, experience their train trip from New York to the Dakota Territory on their quest to find a new home in America. Throughout the many weeks of travel, Katy and her cousins have many
adventures and ordeals as she leaves ev-
ISBN-13: 978-160126 13b4
90000 erything she has ever known behind to
an unknown, unfamiliar future.

Chapter book series intended for ages 8-12. Book 1 in the “Roses of the Valley” series.