Fifteen year-old Irish-born Annie Moore was the very first immigrant to land at the now historic handling station at Ellis Island in New York on the day it opened in 1892. Here is her story, told as historical fiction for juvenile readers.
Card catalog description
On January 1, 1892, the day of her fifteenth-birthday, Annie Moore, arriving from Ireland with her two young brothers to join their parents in New York City, becomes the first immigrant of any nationality to set foot on American soil at the Immigrant Landing Station on Ellis Island.
Annie Moore: First in Line for America
Annie Moore: First in Line for America,Eithne Loughrey,Mercier Press,1856352455,Biography & Autobiography - Historical,Children's 9-12 - History - General,Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction,Children: Grades 4-6,Ellis Island Immigration Stati,Fiction,Girls & Women,History - General,Immigrants,Irish Americans,Juvenile Nonfiction,Juvenile fiction,Moore, Annie,,b. 1877,Biography: general,Moore, Annie,USA
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