The Ellis Island Quiz Book
The Ellis Island Quiz Book

Author: Barry Moreno

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1625842090

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A multiple-choice quiz that teaches you everything you need to know about the immigrant experience at America’s “Golden Door.” Have you ever wondered what it was like to journey across the ocean and disembark at Ellis Island? How would you earn a living? How would you have lived during your time at sea? Find the answers through the quizzes in this book, which cover topics like famous immigrants, the ocean crossing and Ellis Island in popular culture. The questions are designed to be challenging for young students and adults alike and are as fun as they are educational. Discover Ellis Island, immigration history and what it was like to be an immigrant.

What Was Ellis Island?
What Was Ellis Island?

Author: Patricia Brennan Demuth

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-03-13

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 044847915X

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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.

The Orphan of Ellis Island
The Orphan of Ellis Island

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780590482462

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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.

Immigrant Kids
Immigrant Kids

Author: Russell Freedman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0140375945

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America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s—but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.

Ellis Island My Story, Level 2
Ellis Island My Story, Level 2

Author: Janet Hardy-Gould

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780194634441

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New York, 1925. While her children play, Rosalia unpacks boxes in the family's new apartment. In one of them, she finds her old sketchbook, and when she looks at the pictures, they take her back to her journey to America from Italy by sea in 1910, as a fourteen-year-old girl...Word count 8,707

Gittel's Journey
Gittel's Journey

Author: Lesléa Newman

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1683353692

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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.

Coming to America
Coming to America

Author: Betsy Maestro

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780590441513

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Explores the evolving history of immigration to the United States, a long saga about people coming first in search of food and then, later in a quest for religious and political freedom, safety, and prosperity.

Journey to Ellis Island
Journey to Ellis Island

Author: Carol Bierman

Publisher:

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897330548

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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.

At Ellis Island
At Ellis Island

Author: Louise Peacock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-05-22

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0689830262

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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.