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Author Hopkinson, Deborah.

Title Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924 / Deborah Hopkinson.

Publication Info. New York : Orchard Books, 2003.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 305.8 HOPKINSON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J307.76 HOP    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  J974.7 HOP    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 307.76 HOP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 307.76 HOP    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 307.76 HOPKINSON    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J UNITED STATES 307.7 HOP    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Children's Department  J 307.76 HOP    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J307.76 HOP    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department  J 307.76 HOPKINSON    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-122) and index.
Contents Coming to the golden land -- Tenements: shutting out the sky -- Settling in: greenhorns and boarders -- Everyone worked on -- On the streets: pushcarts, pickles, and play -- A new language, a new life -- Looking to the future: will it ever be different?
Summary Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 4.0 74048.
Subject Tenement houses.
Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Juvenile materials.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Local Subject Poor people -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 0439375908 library binding
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