There are 39 records in the Immigration bibliography.
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| Aliki. Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Memories. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998. |
Two separate stories — the first tells of Mari's experience starting school in a new land, while the second describes life in her country before she and her family left in search of a better life. |
K-2nd Grade, 3rd-5th Grade |
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| Allen, James Paul, and Eugene James Turner. We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity. New York: Macmillan, 1988. |
This oversized reference includes 111 original maps and a detailed text that describes the ethnic backgrounds of Americans and illustrates their geographic distribution throughout the country. |
General Reference, |
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| Alvarez, Julia. Something to Declare. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. |
Through a series of non-fiction essays, Alvarez tells her own life story, including her early childhood in the Dominican Republic, her immigration to the United States as a teenager and her current life as a bicultural citizen and novelist. |
9th - 12th Grade, |
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| Avi. Escape from Home (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 1), The. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. |
This book makes an excellent "read aloud." Driven from their impoverished Irish village, Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America. |
3rd-5th Grade |
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| Bial, Raymond. Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. |
This photoessay, with brief text and numerous black-and-white and color photographs, depicts late 19th and early 20th century immigrant life in Manhattan's Lower East Side cramped and crowded tenement buildings. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Bunting, Eve. Dreaming of America: an Ellis Island Story. Mahwah, NJ: Bridge Water Books, 1999. |
This pictures book tells the true story of fifteen year old Annie Moore, the first Irish immigrant to be processed through Ellis Island on January 1, 1892. |
K - 2nd Grade, |
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| Clarke, Duncan. New World: The History of Immigration into the United States, A. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2000. |
Archival period photos illustrate a detailed chronicle of United States immigration history. |
9th - 12th Grade, Teacher's Resource, General Reference, |
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| Coan, Peter Morton. Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words. New York: Facts on File, 1997. |
This collection of 130+ first person narrative interviews, arranged geographically by region from which the interviewees emigrated, offers students a readable view of the Ellis Island island immigration experience from 1892 to 1924. |
9th - 12th Grade, |
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| Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. |
This authoritative, well-illustrated, and comprehensive study of immigration traces the migration of refugees to America as far back as the year 1500. Watch for a new edition to be published soon! |
Teacher's Resource, General Reference, |
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| Daniels, Roger. American Immigration: A Student Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. |
This A to Z guide includes over 300 entries covering multiple aspects of immigration history and policy. |
9th - 12th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, General Reference, |
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| Diner, Hasia R.. Hungering for America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. |
Stories of Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants demonstrate the role of hunger in driving migration and the significance of food in cementing ethnic identity and community. |
9th - 12th Grade, |
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| Freedman, Russell. Immigrant Kids. New York: Puffin Books, 1995. |
Fascinating photos and descriptive text depict the harsh life of immigrant children in the early 1900's. |
3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's Song. New York: Delacorte, 2000. |
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Hall, Bruce Edward. Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown. New York: Free Press, 2002. |
Hall tells the history of New York's Chinatown through stories of his family's emigration from China to the U.S. |
9th - 12th Grade, |
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| Hesse, Karen. Letters From Rifka. New York: Holt, 1992. |
Based on a true story, this novel, told through a series of letters, relates how 12-year-old Rifka and her family emigrated to the US to flee the harsh treatment of Jews in Russia. |
3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Kerby and Patricia Mulholland Miller. Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001. |
This fascinating account of Irish immigration is enhanced with primary sources and artifacts in scrapbooking style, such as postcards, letters, and an eviction notice. |
6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade |
Rebecca Amerson
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Woodstock High School |
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| Lawlor, Veronica. I Was Dreaming to Come to America. New York: Viking, 1995. |
This picture book features 15 immigrants' recollections gathered from interviews through the Ellis Island oral history project. |
3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Leighton, Maxinne Rhea. Ellis Island Christmas, An. New York: Viking, 1992. |
Having left Poland and braved ocean storms to join her father in America, Krysia arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Levine, Ellen. I Hate English!. New York: Scholastic, 1989. |
Mei Mei moves from Hong Kong to New York and with the help of an understanding teacher slowly learns English and adjusts to a new culture. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Levine, Ellen and Parmenter, Wayne. If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island. New York: Scholastic Trade, 1994. |
Around the turn of the twentieth century, over twelve million immigrants passed through Ellis Island as they entered the United States. A question-and-answer format and color illustrations explore the procedural aspects and human emotions related to the Ellis Island immigrant experience. -- Copyright © 1993 The Horn Book, Inc. (re-issued publication in 1994) |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, General Reference, |
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| Lord, Betty Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. New York: Harper and Row, 1984. |
Shirley Wong emigrates from China to Brooklyn in 1947 and eventually makes friends and learns about American life by getting involved in street stickball games and by becoming an avid Brooklyn Dodgers baseball fan. |
3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Lucent Books. Immigrants in America (Series of 8 Titles). San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001. |
This series will be a helpful resource for immigration units. Each volume covers the immigrants' home countries,their reasons for leaving, their journeys to America, their settlement and adjustment process, and the continued challenges they face. Current volumes cover immigrants from China, Cuba, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Russia and Vietnam. See also the companion book, Primary Sources: Immigrants in America by James Torr, listed in this bibliography. |
9th - 12th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. |
By tracking a migrant family from Mexico, Martinez reveals the underground culture of illegal immigration from Mexico and shows how the migrant culture is changing America.
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9th - 12th Grade, |
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| Miller, Elizabeth I.. Just Like Home. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 1999. |
A young girl describes how she adjusts to life in the United States as she considers the similarities and differences between her new home and her former home. The child's viewpoint is conveyed through the vivid illustrations and the simple voice (available in both Spanish and English). |
K - 2nd Grade, |
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| Molnar-Fenton, Stephan. Mei's Strange and Wondrous Journey, An. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 1998. |
This lovely picture book, based on the author's own adoption of a Chinese baby, tells the larger story of every adopted baby as each begins its own strange and wondrous journey to a new family. It converys, too, the perceptions of a child who has lived in more than one country, more than one culture. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade |
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| Morrison, Joan and Charlotte Fox Zabusky. American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. |
The immigrant experience in America is presented here in a gathering of oral recollections of 140 immigrants from six continents and fifty countries who have settled all across the United States. |
9th - 12th Grade, Teacher's Resource, |
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| Moss, Marissa. Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl. San Diego: Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2000. |
Children will love this fictional handwritten journal, illustrated with drawings, maps and documents, in which 10 year old Hannah records the details of her journey from Russia to America. |
3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Nixon, Joan Lowery. Land of Hope. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens, 2001. |
In 1902, en route to America from Russia with her family, Rebecca Levinsky befriends Kristin Swensen, a Swedish girl, and Rose Carney, an Irishwoman. Forced to work in a sweatshop, she almost abandons her dream of getting an education. Other titles in the Ellis Island Trilogy include Land of Promise (Gareth Stevens, 2001), which follows Rose Carney to Chicago and Land of Dreams (Gareth Stevens, 2001), which details Kristin Swensen's life on a farm in Minnesota. |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Partridge, Elizabeth. Oranges on Golden Mountain. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2001. |
A realistic picture book immigrant story in which Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Polacco, Patricia. Keeping Quilt, The. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. |
In this picturebook memoir, Patricia Polacco traces the history of a family quilt made from bits of her Russian ancestors' clothing. Over the course of a century, it has served as a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket for newborn babies and in this revised edition she has added pages showing her own children using the quilt. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Sandin, Joan. Long Way to a New Land. New York: HarperCollins, 1981. |
Carl Erik journeys with his family from Sweden to America during the famine of 1868. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Sandin, Joan. Long Way Westward, The. New York: Harper and Row, 1989. |
This sequel to The Long Way to a New Land follows the fortunes of Carl Erik’s family from New York City to the farmlands of Minnesota. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Sandler, Martin W.. Immigrants. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. |
Photographs and prints from the extensive Library of Congress archives illustrate a readable text that chronicles the American immigrant experience between 1870 and 1920.(A Library of Congress Book) |
3rd - 5th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Say, Allen. Grandfather's Journey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. |
In this 1994 Caldecott Medal winner, Allen Say tells the moving story of how his Japanese grandfather comes to America, builds a new life in California, but is torn by his love for both countries. |
K - 2nd Grade, |
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| Sowell, Thomas. Migrations and Cultures: A World View. New York: Basis Books, 1996. |
Thomas Sowell traces the history and economic, ethnic, cultural and social effects of six migrant groups - Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Italians, Jews and Indians - from a global perspective. |
Teacher's Resource, General Reference, |
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| Sowell, Thomas. Ethnic America: A History. New York: Basic Books, 1983. |
Sowell traces the history of nine American ethnic groups - the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans - in order to explain their varied experiences in adapting to American society. |
Teacher's Resource, General Reference, |
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| Torr, James D. , Editor. Primary Sources: Immigrants in America. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2002. |
This varied selection of letters, writings, speeches, legislation and other primary source materials can be used to enhance student learning about immigration.
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9th - 12th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, |
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| Woodruff, Elvira. Memory Coat, The. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. |
An upbeat Jewish immigration story begins in the Russian shtetl and ends with an extended family coming to America to escape persecution. |
K - 2nd Grade, 3rd - 5th Grade, |
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| Zinn, Howard. People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present, A. New York: Perennial Classics, 2001. |
America's story is told through readable descriptions from the point of view of and in the words of America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
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9th - 12th Grade, 6th - 8th Grade, General Reference, |
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