Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure
- ISBN-10
- 1476502536
- ISBN-13
- 9781476502533
- Series
- Ellis Island
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Capstone
- Author
- Michael Burgan
Description
Describes the experiences of immigrants who left their homes in the early 1900s and came to the United States through Ellis Island, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.
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