Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

Label

Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

Title remainder

life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Hopkinson

Creator

• Hopkinson, Deborah

Subject

• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions | Juvenile literature.
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History | Juvenile literature.
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
• Tenement houses -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile literature.
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- History.
• Juvenile materials.
• Tenement houses.
• Poor -- New York (State) | New York.
• Urban poor -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile literature.

Genre

• Social conditions
• Juvenile materials.
• Juvenile literature.
• History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Subject

• New York City -- Social conditions
• Tenement-houses -- New York City
• New York City -- History -- 1898-1951
• Urban poor people -- New York City
• Poor people -- New York City
• New York City -- History -- 1865-1898
• Immigrants -- New York City -- History
• History books -- United States -- Immigration

Genre

• History books

Award

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2003

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

307.76/4/097471

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV4046.N6

LC item number

H66 2003

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990

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Nature of contents

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Target audience

pre adolescent