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Title: Coming to America, The Story of Immigration

2. Author: Betsy Maestro
3. Illustrator: Susannah Ryan
4. Publisher: Scholastic Press
5. Publication date: January 1996
6. Genre: historical fiction
7. Reading Level: 5.9
8. Summary: Coming to America: The Story of Immigration is a book that is written with
many fact regarding an immigrants life and when people started to emigrate to the
United States.
9. Review:
In, Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, the authors purpose is to provide the
reader with information regarding immigration. On certain pages, Maestro mentions how
immigrants that arrived at Ellis Island got inspected by doctors and were asked questions. This
piece of text connects to the book Letter from Rifa by Karen Hesse because that author also
discusses how Rifas family first arrived at Ellis Island and were inspected by doctors, along with
questions they had to answer. The author is qualified to write these types of books because
Maestro has published other informational books about immigration, such as At Ellis Island: A
History in Many Voices The and The New Americans: Colonial Times: 1620-1689. The book also
provided information regarding immigration which allows this book to be easily used in a
classroom. The authors targets children for his audience and appropriately meets the need of his
audience because he provides a well develop story throughout the book. Additionally, the
illustrations are unique, because they present the reader with people from different cultures in the
pictures. The book focusing on multiple cultures in the text and the illustrations. Students will be

able to make deeper connections with the illustrations because of the details. Some of the people
in the illustrations are colored skin. The students can better identify with the story if their
personal life connects to the pictures.