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  • Cora Cartmell and New York City by allymal2005
    allymal2005
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    After the Titanic sinks, 8 year old Cora Cartmell goes on to live with her Uncle Jack and Aunt Rose in New York City's Lower east side. There, scary things occur, Cora becomes and actor, starts school, makes new friends, and gets news of a baby sibling. It's a dream life for her. *to know what's happening better, read my first sorry "Cora Cartmell and TITANIC" *
  • Kitty and Valensky by alcat33
    alcat33
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    A New York socialite has the perfect life... until an old friend pops back into it and disrupts everything. Kitty, a debutante, engaged lady, and social butterfly, has to help her old friend, a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, clear his name and find the real perpetrators. Set in 1904 New York
  • Ellis Island: Hope or Tears? by grl0619
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    Bianca and her siblings have traveled across the ocean to start a new life in America. Her little sister, Adriana, is very sick and Bianca hopes that this new start will lead to a cure for Adriana. Ellis Island is the Island of Hope and that's what Bianca wants her for family: Hope.
  • Paved with Gold by MLW1013
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    Beginning in Hungary in 1905, nineteen year old János Fodor is forced to leave his homeland and his childhood love behind for a new life in America. He sails across the ocean and ends up in Ohio, where the trials of a foreign language and xenophobic surroundings prove difficult to find happiness. Will Mary be his silver lining, or was he better off in the land that he loved? **this is a historical fiction story about my 2nd great grandfather who was born in Hungary and immigrated at 19. That is all we know of him, and this is my interpretation of his story.
  • Ellis Island by CeskilovesBFB
    CeskilovesBFB
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    This isn't Dream Island, this isn't Pee Pee Island either. This isn't any ordinary island. Ellis island is an island where people go to travel to the US. For many people, especially Francesca. It is very hard to get in. Does she have what it takes to get to America?
  • Streets of Gold by PriceofChaosTheory
    PriceofChaosTheory
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    This is just a story I wrote for a project in sixth grade. I just kind of liked it. I don't know. Hopefully others will, too. It's set in Ellis Island by the way
  • My journey to Ellis island  by Emilia14573
    Emilia14573
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    A short story to Ellis island I have no rights at the pictures
  • The Promised Land by Smiller0212
    Smiller0212
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    Rosaria Giovanniatzi has buried her last child. She can't bear to live one more day in her home country of Sicily. So her and her husband Alfonso pack there bags and make the voyage to Ellis Island. Will this really solve all over Rosaria problems? Will America really be all it's made out to be? Will Rosaria loose it all or gain everything?
  • aria sottile || an original essay by hopemore123
    hopemore123
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    thin air /THin er/ 1. used to refer to the state of being invisible or nonexistent Daughters of the American Revolution State Level Winner for Ohio