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2016.
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With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to New York than all other entry points combined. City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved...
3) Dominicana
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Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in...
7) Ellis Island
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Sweethearts since childhood, Ellie Hogan and her husband, John, are content on their farm in Ireland - until John, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, receives an injury that leaves him unable to work. Forced to take drastic measures in order to survive, Ellie does what so many Irish women in the 1920s have done and sails across a vast ocean to New York City to work as a maid for a wealthy socialite.
9) Land of hope
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
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c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the lives of some of the people involved in building the Statue of Liberty and bringing it to the U.S., and discusses the significance of the statue in U.S. history. Includes photographs and engravings, a glossary, listings of important dates and people, and an index
13) Ellis Island
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Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the history, closing, and restoration of the Ellis Island immigration center and depicts the experiences of the immigrants who came to Ellis Island at the turn of the twentieth century.
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[2020]
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"What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the...
16) Ashes of roses
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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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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[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Discusses life on Ellis Island, including detainment and deportation of immigrants, daily activities, the development of the immigration station, its role in the formation of the great melting pot of America, and the later years.