Author/Illustrator: Kimberly Weinberger and Jony Meers
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: 3rd - 5th
Summary:
Elda Del Bino Willitts came to America with her family when she was seven years old in 1916 from Italy. The family arrived at Ellis Island just like the other immigrants at the time did. Before they could leave Italy, her father and older brother left for America to work and send back money for them to travel. After taking four years they finally got word that they could travel so the family packed up and headed to America. After arriving by ship they then had to take a 6-day train ride to get to San Fransico where her dad was at. After a few more years of struggling to make ends meet in America, her family was all together and in a new bigger home. While her father passed away a few years later she was still grateful for the opportunity to be in this country.
I would use this book in a 3rd through 5th-grade classroom when talking about the history of Ellis Island and immigration. I think the book does a beautiful job of explaining immigration and what happened in the 1900s when people moved here.
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