Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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America meant “freedom” to the immigrants of the early 1900s—but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.
Pages: 80
Pages: 80
Tag(s): 1800s, 1900s, Grades 4-6, Grades 6-8, Immigration
Subject(s): History
Author(s): Russell Freedman
Tapestry of Grace: Year 3 Unit 4 Upper-Grammar
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