Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156030601
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.
Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156283151
Short stories.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1476502536
You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.
Author : Barry Moreno
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439616426
Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways. But however they traveled, they found themselves a part of one of the grandest waves of human migration that the world has ever known. Children of Ellis Island explores this lost world and what it was like for an uprooted youngster at Americas golden door. Highlights include the experience of being a detained child at Ellis Islandthe schooling and games, the pastimes and amusements, the friendships, and the uneasiness caused by language barriers.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : 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.
Author : David M. Brownstone
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780760722961
A story of those who entered the new world through Ellis Island in their own words.
Author : Louise Peacock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : 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.
Author : Carol Bierman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : 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.
Author : Peter M. Coan
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816035489
Presents first-hand accounts from the last surviving immigrants.
Author : Willard Allison Heaps
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
ISBN :
A record of the years that Ellis Island served as the immigrants' introduction to America, describing what many Europeans felt and saw upon arrival and the procedures on the island before immigrants were allowed to enter New York.
