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Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
Contributor(s): Freedman, Russell (Author)

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ISBN: 0547903782     ISBN-13: 9780547903781
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - State & Local
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Emigration & Immigration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - Asia
Dewey: 979.46
LCCN: 2012036532
Age Level: 9-12
Grade Level: 4-7
Lexile Measure: 1140(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 9.6" W x 9.6" L (1.30 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Chinese
- Ethnic Orientation - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation - Korean
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Geographic Orientation - California
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Ten to Fourteen, 2015
Cybils, Finalist, Nonfiction, 2014
Review Citations: School Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 182
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2013
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2013
Booklist 11/01/2013 pg. 58
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2013 pg. 114
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2014
Shelf Awareness 01/14/2014
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2014 pg. 83
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 79
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2015 pg. 15
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 163316
Reading Level: 7.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, the other Ellis Island processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the wall poems discovered at the facility long after it closed, the nonfiction master Russell Freedman describes the people who came, and why; the screening process; detention and deportation; changes in immigration policy; and the eventual renaissance of Angel Island as a historic site open to visitors. Includes archival photos, source notes, bibliography, and index.

Contributor Bio(s): Freedman, Russell: - RUSSELL FREEDMAN received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels widely to research his books.
 
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