BOOKS TO NOTE: OF IMMIGRANTS (NON-FICTION plus HISTORICAL FICTION)

Two young women and Ellis Island.

GIANTS IN THE EARTH by Ole Rolvaag (of a Norwegian family of immigrants living in the U.S. midwest)

I REMEMBER MAMA (aka MAMA’S BANK ACCOUNT) (of a Norwegian-American Family living in California around 1900)

COMING TO AMERICA (of singer Neil Diamond’s grandmother coming to the U.S. by way of Ellis Island when she was about 12 years old)