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Genre/Form: | illustrated books Illustrated works Literature History Juvenile works 1140L Ouvrages illustrés Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Russell Freedman |
ISBN: | 9780547903781 0547903782 |
OCLC Number: | 811239027 |
Awards: | Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2015 Commended for Cybils (Nonfiction) 2014 |
Target Audience: | 1140L; Sentence length: 5 (very hard); Word frequency: 1 (very easy) |
Description: | 81 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm |
Contents: | Where the walls speak -- Bound for Gold Mountain -- Angel Island or Devil's Island? -- Waves as big as mountains -- Life in the detention barracks -- The interrogation -- Picture brides, freedom fighters, and refugees -- A nation of immigrants -- Visiting Angel Island. |
Responsibility: | Russell Freedman ; Chinese poems translated by Evans Chan. |
Abstract:
A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.
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