A refreshingly un-woeful introduction to the experience of being a young urban Immigrant around the turn of the century.
In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America..
Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops.
Cities were crowded and jobs were scare.
America meant freedom to the immigrants of the early 1900s--but a freedom very different from what they expected.
An ALA Notable Book
NCSS/CBC Notable Children\'s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
Concise, graphic, and designed in every respect to catch and hold the reader\'s interest.--Kirkus Reviews. . . photos make the scenes real and recollections of Immigrant childhoods give them a personal dimension . . . .
A refreshingly un-woeful introduction to the experience of being a young urban Immigrant around the turn of the century
