Title: Hope In My Heart
Subtitle: Sofia's Immigrant Diary, Book 1 (My America, Sofia's Diary)
First published: 2003
Description: After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
Subjects: Fiction, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Immigrants, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Italian Americans, Emigration and immigration, History, Children's fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Diaries, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Ellis island immigration station (n.y. and n.j.), fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: United States, New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1898-1951
LC classification: PZ7.L3274 Hq 2003