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Historical Fiction-Immigration Book List 16 2.Pages Historical Fiction: Immigration, Migration & Beyond January 2016 ELL Book List Immigration is our preferred Historical Fiction subject this month in in conjunction with our study of Immigration & Migration 1864-1918. Other books are, however, acceptable if you get prior approval from your teacher. Antin, Mary Promised Land This is an autobiography written in 1912 by an eastern European woman who emigrated to the United States in the 1890s. A native of Polotzk in the Russian “Pale of Settlement,” she came to this country at the age of 13 and settled in Boston with her parents and 3 siblings. Like many Jews who fled oppression for a life of freedom, Antin felt that she had experienced a “second birth” on coming to America. Auch, Mary Jane Ashes of Roses This is the fictional account of Rose Noland, a young Irish immigrant who comes to this country in 1911 and takes a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Caught in the terrible fire there, the book is based on first person survivor accounts of the inferno. Avi Beyond the Western Sea Book 1 – Escape From Home Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year- old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord’s runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America. Book 2 – Lord Kirkle’s Money The intrigue and suspense of mistaken identities make up much of the journey and are mixed with themes of corruption and survival in the new world. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer PA, 1896 (Dear America series) The diary account of 13-year-old Anetka’s life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell The Journal of Finn Reardon, A Newsie: New York City, 1899. (My Name Is America series) Finn Reardon is a clever boy who combines school with selling newspapers. Living in a 3 room tenement apartment in the Bowery, with his family, he has to cope with 7 people living in poor conditions. He wants to leave school and make his way in the world to help support his family but his mother sees school as the avenue for success. This is a time when labor is staking a stand to protect itself and both Finn and his mother face off against the Hearst newspaper chain. Bauer, Marion Dane Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, 1873. (Dear America series) !1 Banson, Karen Streets of Gold Fourteen-year-old Maureen and her family, refugees from the Irish potato famine of the 1840’s arrive in New York and struggle to make a place for themselves in an environment more hostile than they had imagined. Blakeslee, Ann. A Different Kind of Hero In 1881 twelve-year-old Renny resists his father's efforts to turn him into a rough, tough, brawling boy. He befriends a newly arrived Chinese boy and earns the disapproval of the entire Irish immigrant mining camp. Denenberg, Barry One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938. (Dear America series) Denenberg, Barry So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, MA 1847. (Dear America series) Fourteen-year-old Mary Driscoll escapes the Irish potato famine and finds work in Massachusetts as a worker in a fabric mill. Duey, Kathleen Nell Dunne: Ellis Island, 1904 Nell's story begins aboard the Astoria, as she and her Irish family are en route to join her father who left years before to find a better life in America. Nell experiences the sights, sounds and smells of the immigrant ships. Durbin, William The Journal of Otto Peltonen (My Name Is America series) Offering a perspective on what people have endured in our land of opportunity, Otto Peltonen’s journal documents his daily descent down a Minnesota mine. He essentially gives his life to the Iron Mining Company in pursuit of his family’s dream for their own farm. Fletcher, Susan Walk Across the Sea This is a tale is set in 1886 California and involves the prejudice against the Chinese and a 13-year-old girl’s friendship with a “heathen” China Boy – a relationship that develops after he saves her goat from a “sneaker wave” that threatens to wash both Eliza and the animal out to sea. Geras, Adele Voyage This story relates the experiences of a group of Jewish young people in the early twentieth century as they journey from their homes in Eastern Europe to the United States in search of a new life. Glaser, Linda Bridge to America: Based on a True Story Young Fivel, left behind in his Polish shtetl while his father in America earns passage for the rest of the family, endures extreme hunger and the terrifying threat of Russian pogroms before the money finally arrives. Upon stepping off at Ellis Island, however, Fivel's joy commingles with an uncomfortable sense of having "left . easy belonging behind." Giff, Patricia Reilly Nory Ryan’s Song When a terrible blight attacks Ireland’s potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan’s courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive. !2 Giff, Patricia Reilly Water Street in 1875 Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Bird aspires to be just like her healer/midwife mother, the now-grown protagonist of Nory Ryan’s Song Giff, Patricia Reilly Maggie’s Door This book continues the theme of the Irish potato famine begun in the previous listing. Here Nory Ryan and her boyfriend, Sean Red Mallon travel separately on the dangerous road of Ireland towards the port and the cavernous ship that will take them to Maggie’s door. Giff, Patricia Reilly House of Tailors When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but she must survive a multitude of hardships. Gundisch, Karin How I Became An American In 1902, 10-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans. Guy, Rosa The Friends One of a series of novels depicting relations between West Indian immigrants in Harlem. Hesse, Karen Letters from Rifka In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family’s flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America. Hest, Amy When Jessie Came Across the Sea A 13-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she words for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too. Krensky, Stephen. The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad. Lasky, Kathryn Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, 1903. (Dear America series) New dreams and old traditions flourish and clash when a Jewish girl and her family emigrate from Russia to America. Lasky, Kathryn Night Journey A young girl learns of her family’s heritage from her bed- ridden great grandmother. In this book, it’s a samovar that is handed down through the family that occasions the stories. Lehrman, Robert The Store That Mama Built in 1917 12-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his struggle to succeed in America. !3 Levitin, Sonia Journey To America A Jewish family felling Nazi German in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once more reunited. Silver Days In this sequel to Journey To America, the reunited Platt family works hard at settling in to America, but the spectre of the war in Europe continues to affect their lives. McKissack, Patricia Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love (Dear America series) Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind as they join the Great Migration. Na, An A Step From Heaven Young Ju’s parents don’t want her to become too American, and Young Ju is ashamed of them. In this stirring immigration story, the particulars of one Korean American family speak to the universal conflicts between home and outside. Napoli, Donna Jo The King of Mulberry Street Only nine when his mother smuggled him out of Italy, Dom Napoli quickly comes of age on the dangerous streets of 1890s New York City. This will be the Book Club selection in February 2010- you may not get credit twice. Nixon, Joan Lowery The Ellis Island Trilogy In this trilogy, readers meet Rebekah, Kristin, and Rose. Each girl left her homeland in 1902 to come to America. Traveling from Europe on the same ship, the girls become fast friends during the difficult three-week journey. Land of Hope Rebekah Levinsky and her Jewish family flee Russia to seek a better life in America. They settle in New York City, but instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop.
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