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Title: Immigrant Kids

Author: Russell Freedman

Narrator: Brian Keeler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

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 Yorks 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 Keelers clear narration will make difficult foreign and unfamiliar words easy to understand for listeners, allowing them to become immersed in the story.

Critic Reviews:

Concise ... designed in ever way to catch and hold the readers interest. (

Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

life as an Ellis Island immigrant child in tenements of NYC

great authentic black/white pictures.

A true teaching tool.

The pictures truly told the story. My 4th grade students were shocked by these images. Their lives are so different from children in the past. Also, the text was easy to read and interesting. My students had interesting conversations about the past. I recommend this book to all 4th grade classes.

Five Stars

interesting

Fantastic Photos

The photos tell the story in this book: photos of immigrant children, roughly 1890-1910. Young readers looking at these photos will be able to make inferences about the children, their families, their lives. A whole period of history will come alive for them, in a way that mere words could never capture. Although Freedman divides the chapters into the passage over, home in the new world, school, work, and play, I felt there was nothing spectacular about the text. The text does not stay with me. The pictures do. Still, a very worthwhile book. Recommended!

WONDERFUL

It is a wonderful book for explaining briefly and graphically the big adventure of emigration to America at the turn of the century.