Historical Fiction is my favorite genre to share with my 3rd grade class because I hope it makes them think about how good they really have it nowadays. Good illustrations and text captivated my students while I read it to them. I will use this in my American pioneers unit, or when I do my social studies lesson on Homestead National Monument located in Nebraska.

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book! I thought this a good historical fiction picture book. The illustrations were extremely helpful as they told more of the story and added to Agnes's simple descriptions. I would highly recommend this book!

I thought this a good historical fiction picture book. Agnes's immigrant story shows how hard they had coming to this new place and trying to find the right place to set up home. How dangerous their travels were.

Agnes is a young girl that traveled from Scotland to the United States. It tells the story of how difficult it was for families and why families wanted to come to America. A better life, to raise your children, and to worship God. Agnes is part of the Mormon Church and her family with difficulty and loss made it to Utah.

The illustrations were vibrant and help tell the story.

A special thank you to Books Go Social and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

When I saw this book, "Agnes's Rescue" while scrolling through the Netgalley website, I immediately decided to get it,  after I read the blurb that said that it was about an immigrant girl. Because I am the daughter of two immigrants. I am a first generation American of Indian parentage/descent, an Indian-American, loosely called “ABCD” (which stands for “American Born Confused Desi” pronounced "day-see" or "day-shee" {from the Hindi word "des" or “desh" [pronounced "day-sh"], generally referring to India and/or the Indian subcontinent}, ABCDs are those of us who were born & raised in the United States, but whose parents are from India and emigrated to America, usually as teens or young adults usually for higher education and/or more economic opportunities, always intending {at least in the back of their minds!} to return "home" to India one day, but instead, ended up settling here {for example, like my parents who were born in India & grew up there, before they came to the US in their 20s [my dad came first, in 1967-68 for grad school, then went back to India at the end of 1970, got married and returned to the US, with my mom joining him a few months later in May/June 1971] and have lived in this country ever since!}, getting green-cards, working, paying taxes, buying homes, having kids, and eventually, becoming citizens — and as the saying goes, the rest is history!).................and I ❤️ reading books about immigrants, particularly children & teen/young adult novels like "The American Girl" books, the "Journey to America" series, and some of the Sunfire romances.

However, I was extremely disappointed by "Agnes's Rescue" because it is NOT so much a book about an immigrant girl as  it is a book proselytizing and trying to push Mormonism. through manipulation and propaganda, like this book.  Not only that, but this book is RAMPANT with misspellings and formatting issues. I mean, I get that this is a galley copy and therefore its still unedited, but even without editing, the author should at least know how to spell words like "well" and "still" and "collarbone"!

Ordinarily I ♡ reading children's and teen/young adult novels, but I really did NOT like "Agnes's Rescue". In fact, to be perfectly blunt, I HATED it!

I thought that this would be a children's book that gave a detailed account of Agnes's experiences immigrating to the United States, but they just skimmed past her journey to this country and spent more time discussing Mormonism and building handcarts than on the actual immigrant experience.

The only silver lining is that I got this book free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review, an I didn't have to pay anything fr it. I would have hated, felt so guilty had I spent money on this book, thinking that it was anything other than the Mormon proselytizing it is!

⭐️ 1 STAR!!!!!!!!!!!

This was a very informative book about what immigrating in the US was like back then. It was harsh. The pictures were good!