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Hear My Sorrow
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, …
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A Coal Miner's Bride
Sent from Poland to Pennsylvania to be married to a coal miner, thirteen-year-old Anetka lives a totally new life in a harsh environment she doesn't understand, in this latest addition …
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Dreams in the Golden Country
Zipporah Feldman, a 12-year-old Jewish immigrant from Russia, uses diary entries to chronicle her family's activities as they acclimate to life on New York City's Lower East Side.
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Hope in My Heart
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. …
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Nell Dunne, Ellis Island, 1904
In the 16th book in the "American Diaries" series, Nell Dunne is scared. This New Year's Day will be the most important day of her life. Her family desperately is …
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Rachel
It is 1910 and 16 year-old Rachel Roth and her family are immigrants from Poland to America. When Rachel sees the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, she catches …
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Journey to America
Now available in a digest-sized paperback format, Berkley Jam's Journey to America book series begins with this story of a young Irish girl who arrives in Boston in 1849 with …
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The Journey of Emilie
Based on true stories of immigrant families. Will Emilie ever see her brother again? "Nordamerika?" Twelve-year-old Emilie Borner jumped at her brother's shout. Karl leaped from his chair and towered …
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Journey of Pieter and Anna
Based on true stories of an immigrant family. How can Pieter leave behind his dog and his best friend? "I just saw her again," Pieter said to Elizabeth. "The girl …
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Nothing Here But Stones
In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, …
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Ashes of Roses
Once at Ellis Island, seventeen-year-old Rose Nolan quickly realized that America was very different from what she had expected and so had to quickly adjust to the reality of hard …
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So Far from Home
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
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Pacific Odyssey to California, 1905
Eleven-year-old Su-Na experiences a harsh lesson in racism when she and her family arrive in California seeking prosperity. As she struggles to retain her Korean heritage, she also tries to …
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Land of Hope
Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen …
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Land of Promise
Rose Carney, a young girl from Ireland, befriends Rebecca, from Russia, and Kristen, from Sweden, during the long journey to America. They part ways at Ellis Island and Rose continues …
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Land of Dreams
As Kristin Swensen anxiously awaits her first glimpse of America, she is filled with a sense of the freedom that her new life promises. But she soon finds herself living …
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A House of Tailors
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 …
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Meet Kirsten: An American Girl, 1854
The Story of Kirsten, a pioneer girl of strength and spirit around the year 1854 who settles on the frontier.
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Letters from Rifka
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 …
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Sarah, Also Known as Hannah
When twelve-year-old Sarah leaves the Ukraine for America in her sister's place, she must use her sister's passport and her sister's name, Hannah. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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A Paradise Called Texas
Searching for a better life, Mina and her parents leave their German fatherland in 1845 and sail to Texas where they find hardship, tragedy, and adventure.
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen
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 …
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Wildflower Girl
Left orphaned at thirteen Peggy O'Driscoll leaves Ireland to seek her fortune in America.
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Twist of Gold
A mother and her two surviving children, Sean and Annie, can no longer hold out against the terrible famine in Ireland. Near to death, the mother sends the children out …
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An Ocean Apart
With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children. Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl …