A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (Dear America)

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Summary: A Coal Miner's Bride
Review: This is a book about Anetka Kaminska, a Jewish Polish girl who lived in Poland until her father tells her to come to America. Her father also has a man there waiting for her when she gets there. Her future husband as she is told. Before she gets there she met a man, the czar's soldier, called Leon. The two of them talk disagreeingly for a while until she says she has to go home. Unfortunately for her he keeps coming up in her life. They keep bumping into eachother, as he puts it. He takes Anetka and her brother, Jozef, to America and they all pass the test to go in, but Leon gets detained. He comes back later and when Stanley and Anetka get married her invites himself over. Anetka was marrried to Stanley and his three daughters when he dies in a mining accident. Leon and three oher boarders come to pay for her debt that Stanley left. Anetkad knows she loves Leon although she doesn't admit it. Of course, later on in the story she marries him.
I think this a really good book and I really liked it. Of all the Dear America books I've read this one is the best. I really like these books because they are in diary form, it's a love story, has history, and is in the form that it's written by a girl near my age. So, it makes the historical event more exciting which makes the book more exciting.
My favorite part in this book is the part where they, Leon and Anetka, keep "bumping" into eachother. I also like how Leon is always teasing her too. He can be the most funniest person, but he can also be the most serious because he is part of a union that is trying to help more workers be in better working conditions. From a group of Americans, he gets jumped and that's how they get closer by him staying at her house...