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    Immigrant Kids
    Immigrant Kids
    Immigrant Kids
    Audiobook42 minutes

    Immigrant Kids

    Written by Russell Freedman

    Narrated by Brian Keeler

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York's Ellis Island-that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows. Children had to go to school with kids from different countries and learn to read and write a new language. And many of the boys and girls were going to school at night, after working a 12-hour work day to help support their families. But these immigrants learned to persevere through all odds so they could make it in America. Newbery Medal winner Russell Freedman tells the immigrant story through the eyes of children. Brian Keeler's clear narration will make difficult foreign and unfamiliar words easy to understand for listeners, allowing them to become immersed in the story. "Concise ... designed in ever way to catch and hold the reader's interest."-Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781470354893
    Immigrant Kids
    Author

    Russell Freedman

    Russell Freedman (1929-2018) received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He was the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lived in New York City and traveled widely to research his books.

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    • 3/5
      Reason for Reading: Read aloud to my son as part of his history curriculum.Russell Freedman is an award winning author with an extensive backlist and I've always been confident when seeing his name on a book. This is an over-sized book, profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs. Sometimes the photograph will take up more page space than the text and many times a whole page is devoted to the photograph. The text concentrates on 1890s-1900s immigration, coming into Ellis Island and living in New York City. The children are the focus and each chapter takes a look at a specific aspect of their live work, play, school. The book is peppered here and there will actual quotes from people who were once the children this book speaks of.The photographs are wonderful and the book can be enjoyed simply by looking through the pictures and reading the captions. It is the photos that make this book. Unfortunately, we were not very impressed with the text. It had no cohesiveness, told no one's story, just randomly gave out information, which was interesting per se, but neither of us had any connection with the author's style of imparting that information. Rather a disappointment from a book authored by Russell Freedman. I recommend getting this book out from the library and looking at the photographs as they are definitely worthwhile.
    • 5/5
      This book is about what it was like for Immigrant kids after they came to America and is filled with real pictures taken during the time. It covers the travels here and the life once they arrived. It has sections in which an immigrant shares their own experience as a child during that time. The book can really make a kid greatful for what they have. It is great to be used with a history lesson and is accurate and powerful with its words and pictures. It could also lead into a discuss on child labor laws that followed this time.
    • 5/5
      Summary:Immigrant Kids is a book containing a various collection of photographs of children living during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This book documents millions of European immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in New York. These immigrants were searching for the American dream and hoping to make a new beginning. The book truly demonstrates the way children lived during this era. The kids worked all sorts of jobs but they were still children at heart. Personal Reaction:This was a very informational and interesting book to read. I loved looking at the photographs and seeing how these children truly lived during this time.Classroom Extension Ideas:1. After reading this book to my class we would have a lesson over the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the late 1800s and early 1900s. We would study the way the children of the immigrants lived their daily lives.2. After reading this book to my class I would send my students home for the weekend with a homework project. The students are to go home over the weekend and gather some family photos to present to the class on Monday.
    • 5/5
      This is a great non-fiction book describing the trials and tribulations of an immigrant. The focus of this book is the immigrant experience in New York City. It begins with Ellis Island processing problems and then follows them through the sweatshops and budding factories as well as the cottage industries. A neat feature in this book is the index in the back. This could be helpful in doing research. A second feature of this book in addtition to the text, are the actual photos, that have been pulled specifically for this work. Immigrant kids would be a great addition for an upper-elementary or even a middle school.