Ellis Island

Written by Michael Burgan

Part of the You Choose: History series

Navigate Ellis Island's trials; your choices shape your fate in a new world.

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112 pages· 600L

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Step into the shoes of an early 1900s immigrant arriving at Ellis Island. Will you escape Russian violence, face World War I's challenges, or risk deportation? Your decisions determine your destiny—opportunity, wealth, or peril await. Choose wisely.

From the publisher

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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