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-- Ninety-seven Orchard2011, c2010., Harper Call No: 394.1 2097471 Edition: 1st Harper pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life of immigrant Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews in New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century.
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2005., A & E Television Networks Call No: DVD 973.9 ELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American history.Summary Note: A documentary on the nation's largest 20th-century immigration portal. The program captures the doors through which so many traveled on their way to help build a modern America.
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2002., Laurel-Leaf by arrangement with H. Holt Call No: FIC AUCH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Crowder Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in verse about the historical figure of Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to New York City's Lower East Side in the early 1900s. Getting a job at a garment factory, Clara is appalled at the working conditions, and begins working tirelessly to gain women's rights in the workplace.
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[2015]., Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--Provided by publisher.
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2015, Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel in verse about the historical figure of Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to New York City's Lower East Side in the early 1900s. Getting a job at a garment factory, Clara is appalled at the working conditions, and begins working tirelessly to gain women's rights in the workplace.
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[2015]., Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HISTORICAL F CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York.
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[2015], Adolescent, Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: HistoricalHistorical [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--Provided by publisher.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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[2013]., Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: E MAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Magic Wagon Call No: [FIC] Genre: Historical fiction Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Maximilian lands on a ship of Irish immigrants bound for Ellis Island, where he meets a young girl named Ashling who tells her family's story and smuggles him through immigration, as well as a friendly pelican that takes him on a flight around New York Harbor in search of his damaged time machine.
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2008., Feiwel and Friends Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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By Hesse, Karen2008, Pre-adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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By Hesse, Karen2008., Pre-adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical fiction FIC HESSE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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c1996., Scholastic Call No: 304.8 MAE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduction to the history of immigration to the United States.
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1996., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: 304.8 73 009 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated introduction of the history of the immigration of people from all over the world to the United States.
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[2015]., Kensington Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of an Alcatraz prison guard's only daughter who goes missing and the prisoner who knows the truth, and the story of Shanley Keagan who almost twenty years earlier leaves Dublin, Ireland and comes to America to find his father.
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c2009., Primary, Picture Window Books Call No: 304.8 73 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American symbolsSummary Note: Describes the building of the Ellis Island Immigration Center and the process immigrants went through when they arrived in the United States and discusses why the center closed.
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1997., Facts on File, Inc. Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF COA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents firsthand accounts by the last surviving immigrants and others who came through Ellis Island, describing in detail the life they left behind in Europe, why they emigrated, what they endured and what became of them after their arrival.
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By Kwok, Jean2010., Riverhead Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC KWOK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.