A Picnic in October

By Eve Bunting

Subjects: Italian americans, fiction, Picnicking, fiction, Statue of liberty (new york, n.y.), juvenile literature, Italian Americans, Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.), Immigration and emigration, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction

Description: A boy finally comes to understand why his grandmother insists that the family come to Ellis Island each year to celebrate Lady Liberty's birthday.