Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
5041
Points per Word
0.000198
Page Count
44
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
The experiences of people coming to the United States are conveyed by a contemporary young girl visiting Ellis Island and of a girl who immigrated in about 1910, as well as by quotes from early twentieth-century immigrants and Ellis Island officials.