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Penguin Workshop, 2014-13-03

What Was Ellis Island?

What Was Ellis Island?

What Was? and What Was...

Patricia Brennan Demuth, Author, Who Hq, Author

David Groff, Illustrator

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9780448479156

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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 popular landmarks in the country.
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With empathy and historical clarity, this book offers an engaging introduction to immigration’s complex legacy. Readers glimpse both hardship and hope in these true stories of arrival, identity, and change.

Keywords and Themes: Beginnings • Change • Courage • Emigration • etc. • History • Home • Immigration & Refugees • Juvenile Nonfiction • Monuments • National Parks • Places • Social Topics • Symbols • United States • United States - 20th Century

Readability • 5.5

Age Range • 8-12

Pages • 112

Subjects • Emigration and immigration • Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N. • History • United States

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Symbols, Monuments, National Parks, etc. • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century • Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Emigration, Immigration & Refugees • Juvenile Nonfiction | Places | United States

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 popular landmarks in the country.
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