immigrants

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immigrants

Arab Americans

2007
Chronicles the immigration experience of Arab Americans during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their fight to overcome racial prejudice, and contains a timeline and glossary.

Italian Americans

2007
Examines Italian immigration to the United States and their strong cultural communities; and includes charts and graphs, time lines, and information on important people and events.

Peoples of North America

2003
Presents alphabetized profiles of approximately 170 ethnic groups in North America, providing fact files and maps and discussing their histories, geography, arts, culture, and politics, and includes entries on special topics such as anti-immigrant prejudice, the Cold War, and industry and employment.

Freddie & me

a coming of age (Bohemian) rhapsody
2008
A graphic novel by Mike Dawson recounting his experiences coming of age in the UK, immigrating to New Jersey during high school, and finding his place in the real world, and explaining how the music of Queen and Freddie Mercury helped him navigate the trials of life.

Ten thousand charms

2005
An exiled German king and his three daughters arrive in Pharoah, New York, where their fates become intertwined with that of an eleven-year-old ropemaker's apprentice named Roddy, whose supernatural abilities allow him to communicate with crows and dark forces.

Song of Sampo Lake

2002
In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.

Nell Dunne

Ellis Island, 1904
2000
Nell Dunne, an Irish girl, is concerned about being separated from her family when they reach Ellis Island.

Journey to a new land

an oral history
2000
Elda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916.

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