# My Ántonia

**Author:** Willa Cather
**Lexile:** 1010L
**Grade range:** Grades 10–12
**Age range:** 15–18
**First published:** 1918
**Page count:** 272
**Genre:** Historical Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780395755549`
**ISBN-10:** `0395755549`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/my-antonia
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Willa Cather's 1918 novel tells the story of Jim Burden and his childhood friend Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant on the Nebraska prairie at the turn of the 20th century. A Common Core Appendix B exemplar and a staple of 11th grade American literature units on the frontier and immigrant experience.

## Themes

- immigration
- frontier
- memory
- friendship
- american identity

## Content notes

- suicide (historical)
- hardship

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 13+

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