Shutting out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
by Hopkinson, Deborah
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award/Honor BookScott O'Dell AwardBooklist Editors' ChoiceJane Addams Book Award Finalist/Winner BJames Madison Award/Honor BookIRA's Teachers' Choice AwardBiographies/AutobiographiesAmerican/U.S. History
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AR Book Level
6.8
AR Points
4
Word Count
21,095
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
74048 EN
About this book
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.