Elizabeth Carney - Ellis Island

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Sincerely,

Mariam Jean Dreher

Professor of Reading Education
University of Maryland, College Park

Ellis Island

Elizabeth Carney

Washington, D.C.

To all the immigrants who bravely took a chance
to secure a better life for future generations.
Especially my namesake, Elizabeth Bardar,
who passed through Ellis Island in 1920. E. A. C.

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Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Carney, Elizabeth, 1981
Ellis island / by Elizabeth Carney.
pages cm. (National geographic
kids readers)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4263-2341-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4263-2342-3 (library binding :
alk. paper)
1. Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y.
and N.J.) 2. United StatesEmigration and
immigration. I. Title.
JV6484.C37 2016
304.873dc23

2015028054

Art Director: Amanda Larsen
Designer: YAY! Design

The publisher and author gratefully
acknowledge the expert content review of this
book by Vincent Cannato, associate professor,
History Department, University of Massachusetts
Boston, and the literacy review of this book
by Mariam Jean Dreher, professor of reading
education, University of Maryland, College Park.

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Table of Contents

Island of Hope

It was New Years Day in 1892. Annie
Moore took her two little brothers
hands. They walked onto the dock at
Ellis Island, New York. A government
building on the island had just opened.
There, workers would decide whether
to let them into the United States.

Annie and her brothers were immigrants.
They had come from another country and
were looking for a new life in America.
Annie would be the first to walk through the
buildings doors.
Over the next
years, millions
would follow.

The main building on Ellis Island, as it looks today

Immigrants arriving on Ellis Island, around 1900

Words

to

Know

IMMIGRANT: Someone who
comes to a country
to live there
permanently

Seventeen- year- old Annie had sailed