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Author	Hopkinson, Deborah.
Title	Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1915 / by Deborah Hopkinson.
Pub Info	New York : Orchard Books, 2003.

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Eastham-Children's Coll.	J 974.4 HOP	AVAILABLE
Nantucket-Childrens	J 307.76 HOP	AVAILABLE
Orleans-Children's Room	J 307.76 HOPK	AVAILABLE
Dennis Public - Adult	YA 307.76 HOP	AVAILABLE
Hyannis Adult Collection	974.7 Hopkinson	AVAILABLE

Edition	1st ed.
Descript	viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Audience	990L Lexile
Note	Accelerated Reader MG 6.8 4 4 74048
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.
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references.
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?
Subject	Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.
	Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
	Poor -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Tenement houses.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
	New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
ISBN	0439375908 (lib. bdg.)

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