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Journey to Ellis Island 6 reviews
Carol Bierman, Barbara Hehner
Hyperion, 1998
This is a must-use for any middle school classroom!
+ Character traits nicely parallel our school's program.
+ Great book for all ages!
+ An absolute treat!
+ Great book
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Ellis Island 3 reviews
Mandy Patinkin
A&E Home Video, 2003
Watch it and weep...
"My father hugged my mother and told her, 'you don't need to be afraid ever again. We're in America now.'" That was one of the MANY personal narratives included in this FANTASTIC documentary that brought tears to my eyes. The stories of how immigrants reacted when they first came to this country ...
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Letters from Rifka 84 reviews
Karen Hesse
Puffin, 1993
toching story- the immigrant happy end story
+ A wonderful book..
+ A fascinating diary of a young immigrant's struggles...
+ Letters from Rifka
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Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom15 reviews
Stephen Wilkes
W. W. Norton, 2006
Beautiful Book, Great Photographs
+ Beautiful images
+ Stunning, hanunting, beautiful, inspirational for artists
+ Hauntingly beautiful photographs
+ Ellis Island's skeletel remains
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At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices1 review
Louise Peacock
Atheneum, 2007
The Perfect Tool for Teachers and a Great Gift
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. ...
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If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island (If You.)5 reviews
Ellen Levine
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994
Brings back an almost forgotten era
+ Ellis Island
+ I learned so much
+ Good Historical Nonfiction
+ Terrific Book!
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History Channel: The Ellis Island Experience2 reviews
Windows | SouthPeak Interactive, 2000
Ideal for home & classroom educational software collections.
+ Brings the Ellis Island Experience to life in a new way
The Ellis Island Experience is an amazing, informative and fun educational software developed by SouthPeak Interactive in collaboration with The State of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. and The History Channel. This comprehensive, interactive, 365-year chronicle of American immigration ...
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The Orphan Of Ellis Island (Time Travel Adventures)23 reviews
Elvira Woodruff
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2000
the orphan of ellis island
+ the orphan of ellis island
+ book review of orphan of ellis island
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+ Very Enjoyable
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I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project 3 reviews
Veronica Lawlor
Puffin, 1997
really pretty
+ Good Lesson Resource
It's a really pretty book. I really advise you to buy it. The images are both personal, unique, as well as intelligent.
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Family Tree Guide to Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors: A Genealogist's Essential Guide to Navigating the ...
Sharon Carmack
Family Tree Books, 2005
An estimated 40 percent of Americans descended from an Ellis Island immigrant - as many as 100 million people - but until now there was no comprehensive guide for researching these early ancestors. This book offers family historians: Tips and strategies for using the popular Ellis Island online database, which 60,000 users visit every day; Advice on overcoming searches that come up empty-handed; ...
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Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital8 reviews
Lorie Conway
Collins, 2007
Fantastic historical read
+ FORGOTTEN ELLIS ISLAND
+ Insight into America's Immigrant Past
+ Heart Warming Story
+ Not quite a five star book
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The Ellis Island Collection: Artifacts from the Immigrant Experience2 reviews
Brad Tuttle
Chronicle Books, 2004
Time travel
+ A 'museum in a box' of 23 reproduced replicas of artifacts
This is a little box with reproduced artifacts from some of the people who travelled through Ellis Island. It is really clever, because the items look and feel real. There is a book which explains the background of Ellis Island, and then explains the implications of each item in the box. It ...
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Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-line Genealogy for Kids1 review
Ira Wolfman
Workman Publishing Company, 2002
Packed with tips on how to become an ancestor detective
Kids are invited to become sleuths into family history with Climbing Your Family Tree: Online And Off-Line Genealogy For Kids, a lively title, packed with tips on how to become an ancestor detective. From conducting interviews with family members to tracking down naturalization records, birth ...
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Italian American Odyssey: Life line--filo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond1 review
B. Amore
Center for Migration Studies, 2007
An Italian American Odyssey is a treasure to be savored
Written by acclaimed artist and educator B. Amore, An Italian American Odyssey: Through Ellis Island and Beyond is not just a single person's memoir - it is the collective memoir of seven generations of an Italian-American family, chronicling the story of their journey to America. Full color ...
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The Memory Coat1 review
Elvira Woodruff
Scholastic Press, 1999
A lovely, sentimental story
I purchased a copy of this book for a friend whose great grandparents immigrated from Russia and entered the United States through Ellis Island and then purchased one for myself to read aloud to my third grade students. The paintings are beautiful and haunting; some in color, some in sepia ...
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Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide1 review
Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Marjorie Lightman
New Press, 1997
Short, concise, honestly informative.
Data is only one side to the realities existing in history. This work serves to balance the reader between cold, overhead retrospective data and warm, close-up human perspective creating a full picture of how we've arrived where we are. The first parts of the book are full of tables and graphs. ...
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Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials [OLD VERSION] 56 reviews
Windows | Encore Software, 2007
Family Tree Maker
+ Great product but be patient
The whole family is using this product and we love it. We have over 1000 family members listed going back to the 1300's.
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The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook2 reviews
Tom Bernardin Inc., 1994
Ellis Island Cookbook - A Review
+ The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook
The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook gives insight to the struggles of our ancestorial immigrants. Poingnat stories are revealed through their personal accounts as well as their recipes. It is a must read historical cookbook for those who wish to learn of our past.... and know how far we have ...
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Remembering Ellis Island1 review
Remembering Ellis Island
Total Content, 2006
Wonderful History Info
Students learned so much about Ellis Island in watching this. Some parts might be a little tedious for younger children. I used it with gifted 4th graders and they seemed fine with it.
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At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices1 review
Louise Peacock
Atheneum, 2007
The Perfect Tool for Teachers and a Great Gift
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. ...
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