Shutting Out the Sky / In a stunning nonfiction debut, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson focuses on five immigrants' stories to reveal the triumphs and hardships of early 1900s immigrant life in New York. Acclaimed author Hopkinson recounts the lives of five immigrants to New York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative. We hear Romanian-born Marcus Ravage's disappointment when his aunt pushes him outside to peddle chocolates on the street. And about the pickle cart lady who stored her pickles in a rat-infested basement. We read Rose Cohen's terrifying account of living through the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, and of Pauline Newman's struggles to learn English. But through it all, each one of these kids keeps working, keeps hoping, to achieve their own American dream.

Other Title	Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
GMD	Book
Corporate Author	U.S.--immigrationandemigration / U.S.--NewYorkCity--Jews--socialconditions
Classification	307.76 HOP
Publisher	New York :PublicAffairs, 2001., Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subject	U.S.--Jews--Social conditionsU.S.--New York--Jews--BiographyNon-FictionUrban poor--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.Immigrants--New York (State)--History--Juvenile literature.Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.Poor--New York (State)--New York.Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History.Tenement Houses.New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
Description	134
ISBN	9780439375900
Additional ISBN	0439375908
URL	books.google.com.hk/books?id=EZZmuAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9780439375900&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api

Notes

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.