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Author
Series
Ellis Island volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Language
English
Description
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
7) Silver days
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous Jewish family lives in a New York City tenement until Papa decides to move the family to California. Sequel to "Journey to America."
10) Land of dreams
Author
Series
Ellis Island volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
11) The arrival
Author
Publisher
A. A. Levine
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
15) 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
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to interwine on board ship and in the new world.
17) Netherland
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Hans van den Broek finds himself alone in New York City after his wife and son return to London, and stumbles upon the subculture of cricket, builds a friendship with Chuck from Trinidad, and begins a new life in his adopted country.
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.
19) Petropolis
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Sasha Goldberg, an awkward, biracial Jewish fourteen-year-old in Siberia, finds love with a homeless high school dropout, clashes with her mother, and escapes to the U.S. as a mail-order bride, where, unhappy with her suburban fiancé, she sets out in search of her runaway father, w
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish girl living on Manhattan's Lower East Side attends her first "package party" where she learns about the traditions of generosity, courage, and community among Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s.
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