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Angel Island

by Russell Freedman

Ages: 9+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Clarion Books/HMH

ISBN: 978-0-547-90378-1

Keywords: Asian American, Immigration

Chinese immigrants who arrived at the “Ellis Island of the West”--Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay--provide accounts of the difficulties they faced. Photographs, reproductions of immigrants' poetry, notes, and bibliography.