Hope In My Heart

By Kathryn Lasky

Subjects: Italian americans, fiction, Ellis island immigration station (n.y. and n.j.), fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction, Italian Americans, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Immigrants, Diaries, fiction, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, History, New york (n.y.), fiction

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.