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'''Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story'''<br>
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'''Author:''' Kessler, Liz<br>
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'''Author:''' Newman, Lesléa<br>
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'''[https://amzn.to/3fEMnnS Buy at Amazon] | [https://bookshop.org/a/15682/9781534499652 BookShop.org]<br><br>'''
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'''[https://amzn.to/3fCkPjz Buy at Amazon] | [https://bookshop.org/a/15682/9781419727474 BookShop.org]<br><br>'''
 
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'''Time Frame:''' 1900-1920 <br>
 
'''Geographic Area:''' North America <br>
 
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'''Topics:''' [[World War II Booklist|WWII]], [[Holocaust Booklist|Holocaust]] <br>
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'''Topics:''' Jewish Immigration, Ellis Island <br>
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'''Genre:''' Fiction<br>
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'''Reading Age:''' Upper Middle Grade, Young Adult<br>
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'''Reading Age:''' Lower Elementary, Middle Grade<br>
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a poignant and harrowing story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaust—based on a true story.
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Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin’s address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel’s Journey offers a fresh perspective on the immigration journey to Ellis Island. The book includes an author’s note explaining how Gittel’s story is based on the journey to America taken by Lesléa Newman’s grandmother and family friend.
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Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe—to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland—will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to?
 
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Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.
 
  
 
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Gosh. This book was just so good. It's up there in my top World War 2/Holocaust books.
 
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In When the World Was Ours, we follow three children, Leo, Elsa, and Max, throughout the course of the war. The story opens when they are 9 years old, celebrating one of their birthdays with a magical day on the town. The three are best friends, inseparable. But Leo and Elsa are Jewish, and as Europe falls under Hitler's sway, the three take different paths.
 
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This book completely broke my heart. I expected sadness, knowing that it was a book about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, but it still was a gut punch. I appreciate that the author based one of the storylines on her own family's history.
 
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These kinds of books are so important. I think it is easy to imagine that World War 2 is ancient history and that we live in a much more enlightened society. But, particularly Max's storyline shows that under the right (or rather, wrong) conditions, any one of us could turn our backs on a group of people who have been othered the way Jews, Roma, LGBTQ, and anyone different was during the 1930s and 40s. Never again means never again for anyone.
 
  
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This is definitely making it into my top reads of 2021.
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Gittel and her mother are fleeing the dangers of Europe around the turn of the century, but due to an eye infection, her mother cannot accompany her. Gittel journeys across the sea to a new country all by herself, despite being a child. I love books like this. I'm always interested in reading immigration stories. I think it can be easy to forget that America is a country made of and built by immigrants. Gittel's story isn't unique - many Jewish children were sent away for safety, or to be able to create a better life than their parents could give them in Europe. Stories like this are important because though this picture book is set more than 100 in the past, children and families are still fleeing dangerous situations to find safety and hope in America.  
  
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This gorgeous picture book is a great way to open a discussion about your own family history.
  
 
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Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story
Author: Newman, Lesléa
Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org

 Time Period: Modern Age
Time Frame: 1900-1920
Geographic Area: North America
Country: United States
Topics: Jewish Immigration, Ellis Island
Genre: Fiction
Reading Age: Lower Elementary, Middle Grade
Format: Picture Book
Published: 2019

American History > Modern Age > Jewish History

Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin’s address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel’s Journey offers a fresh perspective on the immigration journey to Ellis Island. The book includes an author’s note explaining how Gittel’s story is based on the journey to America taken by Lesléa Newman’s grandmother and family friend.

Emily's Review

Gittel and her mother are fleeing the dangers of Europe around the turn of the century, but due to an eye infection, her mother cannot accompany her. Gittel journeys across the sea to a new country all by herself, despite being a child. I love books like this. I'm always interested in reading immigration stories. I think it can be easy to forget that America is a country made of and built by immigrants. Gittel's story isn't unique - many Jewish children were sent away for safety, or to be able to create a better life than their parents could give them in Europe. Stories like this are important because though this picture book is set more than 100 in the past, children and families are still fleeing dangerous situations to find safety and hope in America.

This gorgeous picture book is a great way to open a discussion about your own family history.

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