Immigrant kids
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America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s—but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.
Children of immigrantsCity and town lifeCity and town life.Emigration and immigrationJuvenile literatureEmigration and immigration, juvenile literature