I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, Veronica Lawlor
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I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project

Author: Veronica Lawlor

Narrator: Catherine Byers, Victor Bevine, Wendy Bagger, Various

Unabridged: 0 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio

Published: 02/19/2019

Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Social Issues - Emigration & Immigration

Synopsis

In their own words, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.

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