Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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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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[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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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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[2017]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HI-INT B UWI Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tells the incredible true story of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism.
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1995., Viking Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In their own words, coupled with hand-painted collage illustrations, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, Hyperion Books for Children Call No: Picture Book BIE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.
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1998., Juvenile, Hyperion/Madison Press Book Call No: 974.7 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This is an account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922.
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c2003., Pre-adolescent, Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7 009 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Examines the diversity of peoples who inhabit New York State, including ethnic groups and immigrants, and profiles such famous New Yorkers as Susan B. Anthony, George Gershwin, and Jackie Robinson.
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c2003., Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Examines the diversity of peoples who inhabit New York State, including ethnic groups and immigrants, and profiles such famous New Yorkers as Susan B. Anthony, George Gershwin, and Jackie Robinson.
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c2009., Pre-adolescent, Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7009 9 Edition: Rev. and updated. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Examines the diversity of peoples who inhabit New York State, including ethnic groups and immigrants, and profiles such famous New Yorkers as Susan B. Anthony, George Gershwin, and Jackie Robinson.
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-- New Yorkc2003, Pre-adolescent, Heinemann Library Call No: 974.7 009 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann state studiesSummary Note: Examines the diversity of peoples who inhabit New York State, including ethnic groups and immigrants, and profiles such famous New Yorkers as Susan B. Anthony, George Gershwin, and Jackie Robinson.
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c2009., Random House Call No: 305.8 KID Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.
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c1993., Juvenile, Raintree Steck-Vaughn Call No: B SONDER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Stories of AmericaSummary Note: Follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer.
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2015., Penguin Press Call No: B Padilla Peralta Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Memoir of Dan-el Padilla and how he grew up as an undocumented, homeless immigrant with his mother and brother, but with the help of a kind art teacher got into a prestigious private school, rose to the top of his class, and attended and graduated Princeton--all without legal immigrant documentation.
