Image Description: 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. 

About Katy: 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. 150 years ago, little Katy Mueller was barely five years old, living in the small village of Futtor in Ukraine, Russia, with her father, mother, 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 government 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 German-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 England. Then, climb aboard the steamship S.S. City of Richmond 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 everything she has ever known behind to an unknown, unfamiliar future.