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Shutting Out the Sky
Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880–1924
By Hopkinson, Deborah
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-43937-590-0
- Publisher
- Orchard Scholastic
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2003
Gr 5-8 Through the stories of five immigrants, the world of New York City's tenements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries comes alive with descriptions of the newcomers' struggles and triumphs as they attended night school, abandoned customs, or in other ways acclimated to life in America. Some came as children, others as teenagers, all eager either to succeed on their own or to help their families. Leonard Covello, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2004
Hopkinson describes Jacob Riis's 1890 book exposing the deplorable conditions of New York City tenement housing as having "such powerful pictures and words that readers were carried directly into the world of the tenements." The same can be said of Hopkinson's own absorbing look at the lives of immigrant children and young adults in New York at the turn of the twentieth century—a time of unprecedented immigration to America. Thi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
