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Ellis Island: Three Novels

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0385387857
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island: Three Novels written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving and inspiring stories of the immigrant experience are offered up in this eOmni edition comprised of three novels from Joan Lowery Nixon’s historical fiction series, Ellis Island. Each story features a unique teenage girl’s perspective—one from Russia, one from Ireland, and one from Sweden. In Land of Hope, Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky settles with her family on the Lower East Side of New York and soon realizes that the roads are not paved with gold. In Land of Promise, Irish immigrant Rose Carney arrives in Chicago to a life filled with family responsibilities that impede on her dreams of independence. And in Land of Dreams, Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen’s family lives on a farm in Minnesota, but her parents still cling to the life they’d known in Sweden. Follow their journeys as Rebekah, Rose, and Kristin—and their families— struggle to find the courage, faith, and resilience they’ll need to conquer the odds, find their independence, and realize the American dream.

Ellis Island

Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618999439
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the island where the immigrants went when they came to America looking for a better way of life and the museum that preserves these memories.

Ellis Island

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1476502536
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.

The Last Days of Ellis Island

Author : Gaëlle Josse
Publisher : World Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781642860719
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Ellis Island written by Gaëlle Josse and published by World Editions. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.

Ellis Island

Author : Kate Kerrigan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230742147
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island written by Kate Kerrigan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught up in the civil war. Nevertheless, Ellie is extremely happy and fully embraces her sophisticated new life.

Ellis Island, and Other Stories

Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156030601
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island, and Other Stories written by Mark Helprin and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella and ten stories cover an extensive geographical range, from the German Alps to the Indian Ocean, the title novella pertaining to an immigrant whose over-active imagination gets him in and out of trouble. Reissue.

The Orphan of Ellis Island

Author : Elvira Woodruff
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590482462
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Orphan of Ellis Island written by Elvira Woodruff and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

American Passage

Author : Vincent J. Cannato
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060742739
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book American Passage written by Vincent J. Cannato and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.

Gittel's Journey

Author : Lesléa Newman
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353692
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Gittel's Journey written by Lesléa Newman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin’s address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel’s Journey offers a fresh perspective on the immigration journey to Ellis Island. The book includes an author’s note explaining how Gittel’s story is based on the journey to America taken by Lesléa Newman’s grandmother and family friend.

The Next Ship Home

Author : Heather Webb
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728243157
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Next Ship Home written by Heather Webb and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unflinching look at the immigrant experience, an unlikely and unique friendship, and a resonant story of female empowerment."—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, your poor ... your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America, they form an unlikely friendship—and share a terrible secret—altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them. This is a novel of the dark secrets of Ellis Island, when entry to "the land of the free" promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, and when immigrant strength and female friendship found ways to triumph even on the darkest days. Inspired by true events and for fans of Kristina McMorris and Hazel Gaynor, The Next Ship Home holds up a mirror to our own times, deftly questioning America's history of prejudice and exclusion while also reminding us of our citizens' singular determination.

An Ellis Island Christmas

Author : Maxinne Rhea Leighton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593114728
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book An Ellis Island Christmas written by Maxinne Rhea Leighton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story about one family's daring journey from Poland to America and their hope for a better future in their new home. Krysia does not want to leave her home and her friend, Michi, but there are soldiers with guns on the streets and her mother says that they must go. Krysia, her two brothers, and her mother pack their favorite belongings and begin the long, harrowing journey to America. Krysia is scared but she finds courage when she thinks of her father waiting for her in America with the promise of a better tomorrow. Inspired by Maxinne Rhea Leighton's father's journey from Poland to America, this is a powerful reminder of the beacon of hope and opportunity that Ellis Island symbolized and the importance of family at Christmastime.

Land of Dreams

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0307827518
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Land of Dreams written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish immigrant Kristin Swensen lives on a farm in Minnesota. She hoped for a new life in America, but she realizes that her parents are clinging as closely as possible to the life they knew in Sweden. Kristin can’t accept coming all this way only to re-create what she left behind. She longs to speak English and help the cause of women’s rights. Her parents, however, want her to settle down and get married. Must Kristin give up her dream of independence and accept her parents’ Old World values?

A Fall of Marigolds

Author : Susan Meissner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101625546
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Fall of Marigolds written by Susan Meissner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy in this compelling, emotional novel from the author of As Bright as Heaven and The Last Year of the War. September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. What she learns could devastate her—or free her. September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers...the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life. “[Meissner] creates two sympathetic, relatable characters that readers will applaud. Touching and inspirational.”—Kirkus Reviews

What Was Ellis Island?

Author : Patricia Brennan Demuth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 044847915X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book What Was Ellis Island? written by Patricia Brennan Demuth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened to the public once again in 1990 as a museum. Learn more about America's history, and perhaps even your own, through the story of one of the most popular landmarks in the country.

Hope in My Heart

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613994804
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Hope in My Heart written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ellis Island

Author : Malgorzata Szejnert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925849035
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island written by Malgorzata Szejnert and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work of history that brings the voices of the past vividly to life, transforming our understanding of the immigrant's experience in America. Ellis Island. How many stories does this tiny patch of land hold? How many people had joyfully embarked on a new life here -- or known the despair of being turned away? How many were held there against their will? To tell its manifold stories, Ellis Islanddraws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs and correspondence from many internees and immigrants, including Russians, Italians, Jews, Japanese, Germans, and Poles, along with the commissioners, interpreters, doctors, and nurses who shepherded them -- all of whom knew they were taking part in a significant historical phenomenon. We see that deportations from Ellis Island were often based on pseudo-scientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Sometimes, families were broken up, and new arrivals were held in detention at the Island for days, weeks, or months under quarantine. Indeed the island compound has spent longer as an internment camp than as a migration station. Today, the island is no less political. In popular culture, it is a romantic symbol of the generations of immigrants who reshaped the United States. But its true history reveals that today's fierce immigration debate has deep roots. Now a master storyteller brings its past to life, illustrated with unique archival photographs.

Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants

Author : Barry Moreno
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439620032
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants written by Barry Moreno and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at Americas shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional folk went on to win worldly renown, and their names live on in history. Ellis Islands Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and highlights their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within its pages include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Chef Boyardee; Hollywood icons Pola Negri, Bela Lugosi, and Bob Hope; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; authors Isaac Asimov and Kahlil Gibran; painters Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst; and sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller.