Land of hope
By: Joan Lowery Nixon.
Series: Ellis Island
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Jews -- United States -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.