Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
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.
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch (paperback)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book One, the Escape from Home by Avi
Patrick and his family, in Ireland in 1850, think their troubles are over when Da, who went on ahead to America, sends for them.
Beyond the Western Sea. Book One, the Escape from Home (sound recording)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi (paperback)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi (sound recording)
Dreaming of America: an Ellis Island Story by Eve Bunting
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: the Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant by William Durbin
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (paperback)
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (sound recording)
Bridge to America by Linda Glaser
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (paperback)
Dreams in the Golden Country: the Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl
by Kathryn Lasky
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Hope in My Heart by Kathryn Lasky
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
Silver Days by Sonia Levitin
Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous Jewish family lives in a New York City tenement until Papa decides to move the family to California.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
Hannah's Journal: the Story of an Immigrant Girl by Marissa Moss
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
Hannah's Journal: the Story of an Immigrant Girl by Marissa Moss (paperback)
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.
Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers by Lensey Namioka
While her younger siblings have adopted many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plot to convert her to American culture.
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
In 1892, Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson (sound recording)
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs
The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
Kirsten Learns a Lesson by Janet Shaw
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
It is 1912 and the five daughters of an immigrant family living on New York’s Lower East Side are growing up in a home poor in income but rich in affection.
Streets of Gold by Rosemary Wells
Based on a memoir written in the early twentieth century, tells the story of a young girl and her life in Russia, her travels to America, and her subsequent life in the United States. (J 92)
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch (paperback)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book One, the Escape from Home by Avi
Patrick and his family, in Ireland in 1850, think their troubles are over when Da, who went on ahead to America, sends for them.
Beyond the Western Sea. Book One, the Escape from Home (sound recording)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi (paperback)
Beyond the Western Sea. Book Two, Lord Kirkle's Money by Avi (sound recording)
Dreaming of America: an Ellis Island Story by Eve Bunting
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: the Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant by William Durbin
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (paperback)
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (sound recording)
Bridge to America by Linda Glaser
Eight-year-old Fivel narrates the story of his family's Atlantic Ocean crossing to reunite with their father in the United States, from its desperate beginning in a shtetl in Poland in 1920 to his stirrings of identity as an American boy.
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (paperback)
Dreams in the Golden Country: the Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl
by Kathryn Lasky
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Hope in My Heart by Kathryn Lasky
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
Silver Days by Sonia Levitin
Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous Jewish family lives in a New York City tenement until Papa decides to move the family to California.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
Hannah's Journal: the Story of an Immigrant Girl by Marissa Moss
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
Hannah's Journal: the Story of an Immigrant Girl by Marissa Moss (paperback)
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.
Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers by Lensey Namioka
While her younger siblings have adopted many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plot to convert her to American culture.
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
In 1892, Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson (sound recording)
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs
The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.
Kirsten Learns a Lesson by Janet Shaw
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
It is 1912 and the five daughters of an immigrant family living on New York’s Lower East Side are growing up in a home poor in income but rich in affection.
Streets of Gold by Rosemary Wells
Based on a memoir written in the early twentieth century, tells the story of a young girl and her life in Russia, her travels to America, and her subsequent life in the United States. (J 92)
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
