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My Name is America and My America
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The Journal of Augustus Pelletier:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
"I can't quite believe I am all here because it's just short of a miracle that parts of me aren't floating around in the gut of a grizzly bear...It was the biggest grizzly ever! Least, biggest, I'd seen...it was me who was right in that bear's sights, directly between him and the water..."
Fourteen-year-old Augustus Pelletier, half French and half Omaha Indian, joins Lewis & Clark on their journey from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. His story flows with emotion and action as the unknown territory unfolds before him, from the prairies to the snow-capped Rockies to the golden sea.
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 171 Pages
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Hope in My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary (Book One)
"I thought until now drowning was the worst thing I could imagine. But this, this quarantine is worse. It is another kind of death, I think, and I hold no one's hand and no one holds mine. There are no arms to wrap me tight. I am completely and utterly alone. To be so alone and to have no one to tell you where you family is or if you will every see them again is indeed a kind of death."
When Sofia and her family arrive in Ellis Island after a long and difficult journey from Italy, a cruel twist of fate separates Sofia from her parents and sends her to a "quarantine." There, in a state-run hospital, she and her new friend, Maureen, must learn to overcome the twin hardships of immigration and alienation, while they maintain the hope that they will be reunited with their families.
Reading Level: Ages 7-10
Hardcover: 106 Pages
Paperback: 112 Pages
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Home At Last, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary (Book Two)
"We live on the corner of Moon and Sun Streets. But there is not light here. Well, hardly any, just one ray of light in our apartment. It slithers in through the one window that faces Moon Street and it makes a patch of brightness in this dark place for half an hour each morning. But I am not complaining because now at last we have an address in America, Number 3 Moon Street, and I am sitting here eating Mama's tortellini soup."
After her dramatic release from quarantine and reunion with her family, Sofia moves to the North End of Boston, where the Monaris start their new lives in their new country. While her parents struggle to make ends meet, Sofia must adjust to her American school, friends and job.
Reading Level: Ages 7-10
Hardcover: 108 Pages
Paperback: 112 Pages
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An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (Book Three)
"It is hard for me to believe that Maureen, my best friend in all the world, has been here exactly one week today. It seems as if we never were apart. Her bed is right next to mine and we talk all night long. Gabriella is always telling us to be quiet. But how can we be quiet? It is such a miracle--that she is here in the North End of Boston, that we are in this cozy room and not in that horrible hospital on Ellis Island in New York, where we first met and were quarantined."
Sofia continues to chronicle life in her new home, the North End of Boston, as her best friend Maureen comes to live with her, and her parents open their own store. Sofia describes the daily hardships and joys that she meets as a new American.
Reading Level: Ages 7-10
Hardcover: 112 Pages
Paperback: 112 Pages
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