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You're one of millions of immigrants leaving your home in the early 1900s to move to the United States. You're searching for a better life. Ellis Island, near New York City, is your first stop in your search for opportunity and freedom. Officials on the island have been processing immigrants there for decades, but not everyone gets through. If you pass the tests, you're on your way to a new life in the United States. If you don't, you may find yourself being sent back to your homeland. What path will you take? Will you: Be a Jewish youth leaving the violence of Russia in hopes of a better life in America? Be an Italian teen who lands at Ellis Island during World War I? A German immigrant who faces deportation? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
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"Author and history buff, Michael Burgan writes in a format that is easy for readers to comprehend, while at the same time engaging them and keeping the topic fascinating at all times. . . .When I was in elementary school, I dreaded history lessons because they were incredibly boring! It was pure rote memorization and not at all engaging. In contrast, the interactive nature of Ellis Island is more like a real life adventure - both happy and sad - that teaches without clobbering students over the head with straight facts. Where was this book when I was growing up?"
Smart Books for Smart Kids blog
"Spring 2014; Page 83 The famous photograph of an immigrant family on the deck of a ship looking at the Statue of Liberty decorates the cover of Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure. That one iconic image of the anonymous and hopeful immigrants symbolizes the big picture of the mass European immigration. Within are the diverse experiences of three different young immigrants who passed through the Ellis Island immigrant processing center, which is now a museum of the immigration experience. In each section readers can decide, Encylopedia Brown-style, what choices the immigrants should make at various crossroads and then see the consequences of each decision."
Jewish Book World, Jewish Book Council
"What if what YOU thought should happen made a difference in the plot of the stories you read? The You Choose books allow you to imagine yourself as a character from history and take the story down different paths based on the choices you make. Books in the series include Ellis Island, The Child Labor Reform Movement, The Salem Witch Trials, and more."
New Moon Girls, "Lacey Recommends"
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- SeriesYou Choose: History