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Summary: "In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of immigration through Ellis Island. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important part of American history. An infographic enhances understanding of immigration through Ellis Island, and What Do You Think? sidebars encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo books are published by Jump! 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 FORDemuth, Patricia
Summary: Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What DemuthDaigneau, Jean
Summary: Explores immigration and its history in the United States, discussing Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and Angel Island and providing activities including graphing and comparing immigration populations, making a whirligig toy, and recording family history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 304.8 DAIWebb, Heather
Summary: "Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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Summary: You choose which path you would take if you were an immigrant arriving at Ellis Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOUCoan, Peter M.
Summary: From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island processed 12 million immigrants. Produced in cooperation with the Ellis Island Research Foundation, "Ellis Island Interviews" collects the oral histories of more than 130 men and women from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The stories of these last original surviving immigrants are enhanced by more than 60 photographs, many never before published.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.873 COANewman, Lesléa
Summary: "Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NEWLandau, Elaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.73 LANStein, R. Conrad.
Summary: Describes the experiences of the many immigrants who sought entry to the United States at the immigration station on Ellis Island, New York, before it closed in 1954.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 325.1 STEYans-McLaughlin, Virginia
Summary: This guide book helps to place the Ellis Island Museum (New York) and site within the context of the worldwide, continuing history of immigration. The guide views immigration as a continuing social process that brings people from one part of the world to another where they contribute the richness of their labor to their newly adopted home. Ethnic groups are represented in the guide's historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 304.873 YANMeissner, Susan
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASherman, Augustus F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 SHECannato, Vincent J.
Summary: Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 325.73 CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 CANBell, James B.
Summary: Volume created as a special commemoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 BELJango-Cohen, Judith.
Summary: Follows the history of Ellis Island from when Congress chose it as the site for New York's federal immigration station till its closing in 1950 and eventual opening as a museum in 1990.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.73 JANMazzucco, Melania G.
Summary: After arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy--Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine--struggle to survive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Little Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAZTifft, Wilton S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 325.1 TIFSummary: In their own words, coupled with hand-painted collage illustrations, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.73 IBarr, Nevada.
Summary: While park ranger Anna Pigeon is visiting the Statue of Liberty, a teenage girl jumps to her death. Or was she pushed? Officially the girl was being chased by a guard who thought she was a pickpocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BARStamos, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M STALassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023