A moving story about one family's daring journey from Poland to America and their hope for a better future in their new home. Krysia does not want to leave her

Papa has already left Poland, and Krysia longs to see him again. "First we must cross the ocean to get to Ellis Island in America," says Mama. "That's where Pap

The story of the island where the immigrants went when they came to America looking for a better way of life and the museum that preserves these memories.

A beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy in this compelling, emotional novel from the author of As Bright as Heaven and The Last Year of the War.

You're one of millions of immigrants leaving your home in the early 1900s to move to the United States. You're searching for a better life. Ellis Island, near N