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2) Immigration
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles mass immigration to the United States from the time of the early colonies to today.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The artifacts of Ellis Island tell the story of millions of immigrants who passed thorugh its halls on their journey to a new life in the United States. Imagine discovering a time capsule filled with items including a worn cap, yellowed letters, and old dinnerware. Explore these items and more to learn about the experience of journeying through Ellis Island in the early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born...
9) Ellis Island
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of immigration to America through the voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island, from its opening in 1892 to the release of the last detainee in 1954.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This title explores the controversy surrounding the federal agency tasked with enforcing United States immigration laws. It details the history of this agency and the ways policy changes have affected both people immigrating to the United States and immigration enforcement officers"--Provided by publisher.
12) I'm an American
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An "illustrated, thought-provoking picture book depicts the broad range of cultures in America, the values that bring us together as one people despite our differences, and the many ways we define what it means to be an American"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family--husband, children, and siblings--as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations, as migration reorders economics, politics,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Describes the experiences of German immigrants upon arriving in America. The reader's choices reveal historical details from the perspective of Germans who came to Texas in the 1840s, the Dakota Territory in the 1880s, and Wisconsin before the start of World War I"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay during the little known Chinese Exclusion era. The film examines the genesis of racially discriminatory immigration policies, its reality, and its consequences. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of public policies into human...
17) You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship!: a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at Irish immigrants who came to the United States to escape the potato famine.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Students will read about 19th-century life in Ireland and how mass starvation caused by the Irish Potato Famine forced 2 million people to leave their homes and seek a new life elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of these people came to America, hoping to make a new start. Primary sources and compelling text bring to life the unique history of many of the Irish people who now make up the fabric of the United States.
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