Then The Rules Changed

Whenever he thought he understood things, they turned completely upside down.

Isaac knows who he is and what he wants. Then the czar changes the rules. Now he must leave everything to emigrate to a country that is nothing like he imagined, face fears of being snatched away, and learn a new way of living and being himself.

In this story that begins in South Russia (Ukraine), author Carolyn Zeisset has crafted a moving tale of one young boy’s journey as a German-from-Russia Mennonite immigrant to the American frontier in the late 1800s.