My Journey Through Ellis Island
Title | My Journey Through Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Arnéz |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2015-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1482440016 |
Traveling to live in a new country can be terrifying, especially to a child. Leaving behind family, friends, and places you know and love is something everyone can relate to. In this book, readers board a boat with an immigrant child going to the United States for the first time. The first-person narration introduces readers to Ellis Island and the many immigrants coming to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s, including their reasons for doing so. Historical images and fact boxes add context to this important social studies topic.
Journey to Ellis Island
Title | Journey to Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Bierman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781897330548 |
This dramatic true story--told by the daughter of Russian immigrant Jehuda Weinstein--reveals the joys, fears, and eventual triumph of a family who realizes its dream. Full color.
Gittel's Journey
Title | Gittel's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Lesléa Newman |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1683353692 |
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.
Journey to Ellis Island
Title | Journey to Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Bierman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9780439106221 |
An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.
At Ellis Island
Title | At Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Peacock |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2007-05-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0689830262 |
The experiences of people coming to the United States from many different lands are conveyed in the words of a contemporary young girl visiting Ellis Island and of a girl who immigrated in about 1910, as well as by quotes from early twentieth century immigrants and Ellis Island officials.
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island
Title | If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Levine |
Publisher | Perfection Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780780741157 |
If You... series.
Ellis Island
Title | Ellis Island PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Bial |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618999439 |
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.