Angel Island Immigration
From the Series Perspectives Library
This book relays the factual details of immigration through the Angel Island station, which is near San Francisco, California. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a male Chinese immigrant, a Chinese woman coming to join her immigrant husband, and a missionary woman trying to help Chinese immigrants. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.
| Interest Level | Grade 4 - Grade 8 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 5 |
| Copyright | 2015 |
| BISACS | JNF025210, JNF025000, JNF053240 |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Cherry Lake Publishing |
| Series | Perspectives Library |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 32 |
| Lexile | 730 |
| ISBN | 9781631376146 |
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| Title Format | Reinforced book |
| Release Date | 2014-08-01 |
| Author | Jamie Kallio |
| Features | Author/Illustrator biography, Glossary of key words, Index, Informative sidebars, Table of contents |
| Dewey | 979.462 |
| Graphics | Full-color photographs, Historical photographs |
| Dimensions | 7.5 x 9.5 |
| Guided Reading Level | T |