Contemporary American

Immigration in Late 1800s

Molly's Pilgrim - Barbara Cohen When Jessie Came Across the Sea - Amy Hest Peppe the Lamplighter - Elisa Bartone Klara's New World - Jeanette Winter Watch the Stars Come Out - Riki Levinson The Long Way to a New Land - Joan Sandin The Long Way Westward - Joan Sandin Immigrant Kids - Russell Freedman If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island - Ellen Levine Coming to America: The Story of Immigration - Betsy Maestro Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story - Eve Bunting Journey to Ellis Island - Carol Bierman Naming Liberty - Jane Yolen Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse The Orphan of Ellis Island - Elvira Woodruff Agnes’s Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand Anna’s Prayer: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand And Forever Free, by Joanne Williamson Ida’s Witness: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand Samuel Sailing: The True Story of an Immigrant Boy by Karl Beckstrand

Early 1900's - Great Depression

Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer Betsy-Tacy - Maud Hart Lovelace Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski Blue Willow - Doris Gates Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright The Moffats - Eleanor Estes Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes Homer Price - Robert McCloskey A Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck Mama's Bank Account - Kathryn Forbes The Good Master - Kate Seredy Song of the Trees - Mildred D. Taylor Bright April, by Marguerite de Angeli Copper-Toed Boots, by Marguerite de Angeli The Lion in the Box, by Marguerite de Angeli Come on Sea Biscuit by Ralph Moody Little Britches by Ralph Moody If You Lived 100 Years Ago, by Ann McGovern Henner’s Lydia by Marguerite de Angeli Man of the Family by Ralph Moody Orphan Train, by Verla Kay The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America by Cheryl Harness Rachel Carson Who Loved the Sea, Jean Lee Latham Samuel F.B. Morse, Jean Lee Latham Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, by Clara Ingram Judson The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit