Youre one of millions of immigrants leaving your home in the early 1900s to move to the United States. Youre searching for a better life. Ellis Island, near New York City, is your first stop in your search for opportunity and freedom. Officials on the island have been processing immigrants there for decades, but not everyone gets through. If you pass the tests, youre on your way to a new life in the United States. If you dont, you may find yourself being sent back to your homeland.  What path will you take? Will you: Be a Jewish youth leaving the violence of Russia in hopes of a better life in America? Be an Italian teen who lands at Ellis Island during World War I? A German immigrant who faces deportation? Everything in this book happened to real people.
