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Title:
Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
Author:
Hopkinson, Deborah.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Orchard Books, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
Language:
English
Contents:
Coming to the golden land -- Tenements: shutting out the sky -- Settling in: greenhorns and boarders -- Everyone worked on -- On the streets: pushcarts, pickles and play -- A new language, a new life -- Looking to the future: will it ever be different?
Reading Level:
990 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 4.0 74048.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 4.9 6 Quiz: 33902 Guided reading level: T.
ISBN:
9780439375900
Format :
Book