Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain

by Russell Freedman

Book Overview

Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, the other Ellis Island processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the wall poems discovered at the facility long after it closed, the nonfiction master Russell Freedman describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547903782
• ISBN13: 9780547903781
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.6" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7