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Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Ben F. Stahl

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Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Ben F. Stahl

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This picture book is inspired by Annie Moore, the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island. Annie and her two younger brothers face the long and difficult journey alone from Ireland to be reunited with their parents in America.

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Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story

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Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America by Carol Bierman. Illustrated by Laurie McGaw

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Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America by Carol Bierman. Illustrated by Laurie McGaw

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The author of this biography writes about her father, Yehuda, and grandmother's experience traveling to America to escape religious persecution. Yehuda faced multiple health tests at Ellis Island. It was up to him to prove to the inspectors that he was well enough to stay in America. Bierman includes actual photographs of Ellis Island, the health inspection, and of her father and grandmother.

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Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America

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As the huge ship pulled into New York Harbor, Jehuda and his family quickly gathered their few belongings. Looming ahead of them was a giant green statue, and beyond...

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The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff. Illustrated by Michael Dooling

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The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff. Illustrated by Michael Dooling

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In this story, Grisha, a young Russian boy who has just lost both parents is forced to flee his Jewish community with his family. He refuses to let go of the torn up jacket his mother once made for him. His family fears that the jacket may cause Grisha to fail the inspection at Ellis Island.

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At the inspection station at Ellis Island, Russian emigre Rachel aids her cousin when an inspector singles him out for wearing an old tattered coat that could...

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I Was Dreaming to Come to America by Veronica Lawlor

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I Was Dreaming to Come to America by Veronica Lawlor

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This picture book is a collection of memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. Included, are all real accounts from immigrants who share their experience of coming to America.

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I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project

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The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff

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The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff

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In this young adult novel, Dominic Cantori is an orphan who visits Ellis Island with his class. He listens to the recorded voices of immigrants who share their journey to Ellis Island. Surprisingly, an old Italian immigrant speaks to Dominic. All of a sudden, Dominic finds that he has somehow time traveled back to Italy in !908.

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The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time-Travel Adventure

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Dominic Cantori has a painful secret. He's an orphan, and he doesn't want anyone to know it. One day, while on a class trip to Ellis Island, a tour guide asks...

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This novel is based on a true story from the author's family. Rifka is forced to flee from Russia with her family. She finds comfort in her journey by writing letter to her cousin Tovah. Rifka is a strong young girl who endures many challenges. She is forced to separate from her family during their journey to recover from ringworm if she hopes to reunite with them in America one day.

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From Newbery media winner Karen Hesse comes an unforgettable story of an immigrant family's journey to America. "America," the girl repeated....

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How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by  Beth Peck

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How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by  Beth Peck

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A family is forced to leave their home in the middle of the night. They put everything on the line and take a small fishing boat to America. They landed on Thanksgiving Day and truly understood what it meant to celebrate the day by giving thanks.

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How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story

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A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter

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A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter

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In this picture book, a family celebrates their annual tradition of having a picnic by the Statue of Liberty in October. The young boy complains and questions why they are having a picnic on such a cold day. He comes to learn and understand what liberty means and why it's special to his grandmother.

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Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy Maestro. Illustrated by Susannah Ryan

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Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy Maestro. Illustrated by Susannah Ryan

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This picturebook ties the tale of immigration in the past and present. Immigrants from all different parts of the world, contribute to what we now know as American culture.

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Coming to America: The Story of Immigration

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Milly and the Macy's Parade by Shana Corey. Illustrated by Brett Helquist 

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Milly and the Macy's Parade by Shana Corey. Illustrated by Brett Helquist 

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This picturebook is inspired by the true story behind the first Macy's Parade. A young girl named Milly knew what it felt like to be homesick from Poland. She wanted to come up with a solution so that others didn't have to feel homesick during the holidays. She suggested to Mr.Macy to have a parade that combined old and new traditions to create something entirely new and lift people's spirits.

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This wordless picturebook is filled with images that tells an immigration story that is up to the reader's interpretation. A young immigrant man leaves his family behind to travel to America. He is forced to navigate through his new life, without knowing the language. He works hard to find a place to live and save up money to bring his wife and daughter to America with him.

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"Tan's lovingly laid out and masterfully rendered tale about the immigrant experience is a documentary magically told." — Art Spiegelman, author of...

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In this chapter book, Ruthie Mizrahi and her family have just moved to America from Cuba. Ruthie tries to find her place in Queens amongst new friends and her family is works hard to help make ends meet. Her family gets in a car accident and Ruthie finds herself in a body cast. Friends and neighbors come by to help brighten the days, and months that pass by as Ruthie stays bed ridden.

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Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award!“A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”-Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango...

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Sumi's First Day of School Ever by Soyung Pak. Illustrated by Joung Un Kim

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Sumi's First Day of School Ever by Soyung Pak. Illustrated by Joung Un Kim

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A young Korean girl finds her first day of school frightening. She doesn't understand the language, and feels lonely. As the day goes on, she finds that school isn't so bad after all.

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The first day of school can be lonely and scary, especially when you don't speak the same language as everyone else. Sumi only knows one phrase in English, "Hello...

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In this picturebook, Unhei has just moved to America from Korea. She's afraid the kids in school will make fun of her name. She doesn't want to be different from the other students so she tries to find an 'American' name for herself.

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The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having...

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I Hate English by Ellen Levine. Illustrated by Steve Bjorkman

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I Hate English by Ellen Levine. Illustrated by Steve Bjorkman

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Mei Mei has just moved to NYC from Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, she was able to speak, write and do everything in Chinese. But now everything at school is in English- something she doesn't want to learn. She's afraid that if she learns how to speak English, she will loose a part of her Chinese self. Overtime, Mei Mei learns that she can have the best of both worlds.

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This is a touching story of Mei Mei, a young immigrant girl from Hong Kong, who arrives in New York's Chinatown. With the help of her teacher, Mei Mei learns...

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Molly has just moved to America from Russia. The kids in her class make fun of the way she dresses and the way she speaks. As a homework assignment, everyone in class has to make and bring in a pilgrim doll. When Molly comes to school, her doll looks nothing like the pilgrim in her textbook or the ones of her classmates. To Molly's surprise, her teacher is amazed when Molly shares that the doll is of her mother- a modern day pilgrim.

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Sparkling new illustrations refresh this Thanksgiving classic based on the true experience of a member of Barbara Cohen's family. The touching story tells how...

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In this book, Gracie and her family are celebrating Chinese New Year- it's the year of the dog. It's supposed to be her lucky year, the year she finds her talent. After much trail and error, she finds her hidden talent and makes a new best friend along the way.

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Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

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Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

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Joe- feels all alone since his friends moved away, and Ravi- has just moved from India and is finding it hard to fit in. They feel like they have nothing in common at first, but after they both are are forced to deal with the class bully, they find that they are alike in many ways.

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Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was...

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This is a true story about a quilt from Patricia Polacco's family. It was made from the belongings of different family members from Russia. It has been passed along to four generations and been through many different family traditions

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"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at...

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The Dream Jar by Bonnie Pryor. Illustrated by Mark Graham

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The Dream Jar by Bonnie Pryor. Illustrated by Mark Graham

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Since Valentina's family moved to America from Russia, she has noticed that her father no longer sings like he used to. He's exhausted from working and trying to save money in a dream jar so that they can own a store one day. Valentina isn't allowed to help because her family wants her to go to school like an American girl. She soon finds a way to go to school and help her family make money.

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Everybody Brings Noodles by Norah Dooley. Illustrated by Peter J. Thornton

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Everybody Brings Noodles by Norah Dooley. Illustrated by Peter J. Thornton

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In this multicultural picturebook, Carrie works diligently to plan a Fourth of July block party. To Carrie's surprise, she comes to learn that her neighbors, from all different cultural backgrounds, have all brought a dish with noodles in it.

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Carrie has worked hard to organize her neighborhood's 4th of July block party. Excitement hangs in the air as she makes sure that every last detail—from the...

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Everybody Serves Soup by Norah Dooley. Illustrated by Peter J. Thornton 

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Everybody Serves Soup by Norah Dooley. Illustrated by Peter J. Thornton 

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In this multicultural book, Carrie goes house to house offering to shovel to make enough money to get her mom a Christmas present. Along the way, she finds that her neighbors from all different cultures are making soups. She comes up with a great idea for a gift she can get her mom.

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It has snowed so much that Carrie has the day off from school. She wants to earn money shoveling to buy her mother a Christmas present. But what should she buy?...

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In this book, a little girl helps her mom with their garden in the backyard. She starts to notice that it isn't as pretty as the rest of the neighbors gardens. She then discovers that the ugly vegetables from her garden are beautiful in their own way when they bring the neighborhood together.

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In this charming story about celebrating differences a Chinese-American girl wishes for a garden of bright flowers instead of one full of bumpy, ugly, vegetables....

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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl by Kathryn Lasky

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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl by Kathryn Lasky

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Zipporah has just moved to NYC from Russia. She finds it difficult to make friends and learn English. In her diary entries, she struggles to find a balance between making a life for herself in America while still holding onto her Jewish traditio

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Dreams in the Golden Country: The Story of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl - New York City, 1903 (Dear America Series)

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Here is an image of immigrants at Ellis Island waiting to be processed.

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Here is a short article about immigrant life in New York. It talks about an old apartment building that has been restored and turned into "The Lower East Side Tenement Museum".

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From the 1850s through the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants arrived in the United States and lived in New York City. They first came from Ireland and Germany and later from Italy, Eastern Europe, and China, among other places.

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Here is an oral recording from a man name Knud who tells about his hardships in America, not knowing the language.

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Knud Remembers Hardships Caused by the Language Barrier - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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Some day when I come back, no matter what happens, I'm going to stay in that particular place that I was born. I wouldn't move. I found that out in life. I would never move from my birth place because when you do that you're making an awful mistake.

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Here is a video of a classroom in Finland. Experience what it feels like to be in a classroom where you don't understand the language.

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Here is an oral recoding of Birgitta who recounts what it was like starting school

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Birgitta Remember Starting School - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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I turned seven after we got here and here children were starting at the age of five in kindergarten, so at age seven they put me in the first grade, which was kind of dumb because I didn't know the language and, I didn't know "yes" and "no."

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Here is a video of Grace Lin who talks about the books she writes that highlight her Taiwanese- American culture

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Here is an oral recording of Charles who recounts how he tried to maintain both his Jewish and American culture

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Charles Remembers Maintaining His Jewish Identity - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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My father would want us to go to synagogue on the high holy days; and I always went with him. The other boys, they strayed away from the religious part of it. But I always went with him on every high holiday and the like. I went to Hebrew school.

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Here is a virtual voyage to Ellis Island

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TeacherTube - A Virtual Voyage to Ellis Island

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I will bring my mom in- she immigrated to America from Vietnam when she was 12. The students will get a chance to record themselves, on an iPad, interviewing her with questions that them come up with ahead of time. The interview will be posted to the class website

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The students will create a Storybird in small groups, representing what life was like in America from the perspective of any of the characters from the books listed above. Then they will have an opportunity to share it to the class.

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Students will write or draw about a time when they felt out of place or like they didn't belong. How did they make them feel? And what can they do so that others don't have to feel what they felt.

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Students will create a PSA to present to the school, discussing what the school can do to help new students, english and non- english speaking, feel welcomed.

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Students create a cultural X-Ray, depicting who they are physically on the outside, and what they find important on the inside. These will be displayed around the room so that students can gain and appreciate the diversity among their classmates.

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After reading "Everybody Serves Soup" and "Everybody Brings Noodles" students will each pick a recipe from their families culture to make and bring in. Students will all contribute to making a class cook book on Story jumper.

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After the students have watched the virtual voyage to Ellis Island, have them write a mock journal entry from the perspective of an immigrant. How do they feel after leaving their home? Why are they leaving? What's life like on the ship? What have they decided to pack? etc

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After reading "Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story", the students will create and record their own readers theatre script on VoiceThread, in small groups based on Annie Moore's journey. They will be challenged to incorporate roles where they portray how Annie and her brothers may have felt. They can make it based on Annie's, her brothers, or parents perspective.