Joan Lowery Nixon is the acclaimed author of more than a hundred fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. She is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Juvenile Mystery Award and is the recipient of many Children's Choice Awards. Now enjoy her Ellis Island Stories, each of which focuses on the journeys, hardships, and rewards associated with the immigrant experience in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These stories are accurate fictionalized accounts of a pivotal period in U.S. history.