I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the turn-of-century (1900s) American immigration to students in intermediate-level grades:
- Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
- Immigration (Discovery Kids Magazine)
- Ellis Island (Discovery Kids Magazine)
- Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy Maestro
- Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924 by D. Hopkinson
- Chinese Immigrants in America: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books series) by Kelley Hunsicker
- Landed
by Milly Lee
- ... If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island by Ellen Levine
- Irish Immigramants in America An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books)
by Elizabeth Raum
- Your Papers, Please: Crossing Borders (Shockwave: Social Studies)
by Sue Adasiewicz
- At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices
by Louise Peacock
- German Immigrants in America: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books series)
by Elizabeth Raum
- Coming to America: My Country (Building Fluency Through Reader's Theater)
- Life at Ellis Island (Picture the Past)
by Sally Senzell Isaacs
- Ellis Island: Doorway to Freedom
by S. Kroll
- The Memory Coat
by Elvira Woodruff
- We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz
by Gare Thompson
