Avi, _Lord Kirkle's
Money_ by Avi. The book is the second in a triology that is called _Beyond
the Western Sea_. I've read the _The Escape from Home_ (1st in the triology).
In the first the stage is set for Maura O'Connell and her brother Patrick
to leave Ireland to join their father in America. The second book
recounts their passage to America and their settling in Lowell, MA. Set
in the mid-1850's the books touch on the issue of the Irish and the potato
famine as well as the situtation of the second son of an English
nobleman. Both books are long, so for future reference, they might make
good summer reading.
Avi. Beyond the Western sea
(Orchard, 1996).
Buss, Fran Leaper. Journey
of the sparrows (Dutton, 1991).
Denenberg, B. _So Far
from Home: The Diary of Mary
Denenberg, Barry. So far from
home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl. (Scholastic, 1997).
Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl_
(Dear America Series)
Ethnic groups which lived
on the Lower East Side of NYC--Italian, Irish, Jewish, etc.
Hesse, K. _Letters from
Rifka_ (My favorite)
Hesse, Karen. Letters
from Rifka.
Hesse, Karen. Letters from
Rifka (Holt, 1992).
Hest, A. _When Jessie Came
Across the Sea_
Kudlinski, K. _Shannon:
a Chinatowm Adventure_
Lasky, K. _Journey to
the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple_ (Dear America
Series)
Lasky, Kathryn. Dreams in
the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant
girl (Scholastic, 1998).
Lehrman, R. _The Store
that Mama Built_
Levoy, Myron. The Witch
of Fourth Street and Other Stories. It's a collection of short stories
about the
Nixon, Joan Lowery Ellis Island
Trilogy
Sachs, M. _Call Me Ruth_
Shaw, J. _Meet Kirsten_
(American Girl Series)
Simont, The Year of the Boar
and Jackie Robinson is also good. (Chinese immigrant to US)
Skurzynski, Goodbye,
Billy Radish (boy from an Eastern European country to US
Nonfiction:
Freedman, Russell _Immigrant
Kids_
Kroll, S. _Ellis Island:
Gateway to Freedom_
Jacobs, W. _Ellis Island:
New Hope in a New Land_
Goldish, M. _Immigration:
How Should it be controlled?_
Reimers, D. _The Immigrant
Experience_
Rosenberg, M. _Making
a New Home in America_
Bales, C. _Tales of
the Elders: a Memory Book of Men and Women Who Came to America as Immigrants,
1900-1930_
Under the Blood Red Sun
