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Ellis Island was the gateway to America and the promise of freedom for thousands. Its walls are rich with stories. Its walls are rich with stories. In this book we hear myriad of those voices. First we follow a young person today. Her great-great-grandmother entered America through Ellis Island. As this young girl walks the halls of the famous site, she wonders about the past, the people, and their hopes, dreams and challenges. Here, too, is the voice of Sera, an Armenian girl from the early 1900s. Fleeing the unthinkable in her home country, she longs to join her father in America. As Sera enters the halls of Ellis Island, she lives those same hopes, dreams, and challenges. The voices of real immigrants -- their suffering in steerage, their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty, and their journey through the Great Hall -- complete this touching look into an important part of America's history. A pivotal time and place is brought to life through a combination of many voices speaking in harmony.
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (May 22, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0689830262
ISBN-13: 978-0689830266
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #275,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #30 in Books > Children's Books > Geography & Cultures > Emigrants & Immigrants #477 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Fiction #865 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > History > United States
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
Grade Level: 2 - 5
This book is the perfect addition to a teacher's toolbox for teaching about immigration. It contains a fiction story, original sources and a reflection of someone visiting Ellis Island today--all on the same page. The information is easy to follow and stimulating to all kinds of discussion. Dr. Peacock is a master storyteller and a wonderful historian. There are so many uses for this book. When I think of all the names engraved on the walls at Ellis Island I can only imagine each descendant would love a copy of this book. And--the book itself is beautiful. The paintings are stunning and the photographs grab the reader. This book is destined to become the standard for books about Ellis Island.
Part story of a fictional immigrant girl (Sera), part personal reminiscence by the author, and part quotations from other (real) child immigrants. This book is for older kids - the children portrayed in this book have experienced wartime atrocities and desperate times.Sera is fleeing Turkey, where blood runs in the streets and her mother was murdered, to join her father in America.Every page has a section in script type of Sera telling/praying the story of her emigration to her mother. The pages also feature block quotations from immigrant children's accounts or memoirs, with their names and ages. Most pages also contain a block in red type that are the author's personal observations... those seem anachronistic and out of place on the pages, interrupting the story and setting up a strange sense of present-time clashing with the past. It was hard to follow, reading it with my kids.Great photographs, beautiful illustrations, and very sad and haunting retelling of the challenges these child immigrants faced.My grandmother immigrated to America as a child - this gives good context. It's an interesting beginning to the conversation of how socialism and social unrest led to wholesale slaughter in Europe.*** Update -- also read "The Arrical" by Shaun Tan -- a very moving book about the helplessness, connectedness, hope of the immigrants.*** The Arrival
I read this book to my daughter's third grade class as they learned about Ellis Island. I cried reading about this small girl traveling to America all alone. I think it was valuable for them to see what people were willing to do 100 years ago to find a better life for their children
I bought this book to use in an ESL graduate course. I used it in a reading lesson plan. I had a friend who is a Reading Specialist review it and she also loved this book. The use of fiction and nonfiction in the same book is a wonderful way for students to read about the immigration experience and compare and contrast information gleaned from the two genres.
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