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2) Land of hope
Author
Series
Ellis Island volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Language
English
Description
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Author
Series
Sofia's immigrant diary volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
9) The braid
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
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