Hope and tears
Letters, diary entries, poems, monologues and diaglogues created to illustrate the stories of people whose lives were touched by Ellis Island, once the United States' largest immigration station. Fictional stories, free-verse, and dialogue accompany real-life photographs of immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island, as well as inspectors, doctors, nurses, cooks, social workers, and others who lived and worked there.
Emigration and immigrationEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)ImmigrantsJuvenile literatureHistoryUnited states, emigration and immigrationEmigration and immigration, juvenile literatureUnited states, emigration and immigration, juvenile literatureImmigrant youth