The Memory Coat
Illustrator
Michael Dooling
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Year
1999
ISBN
9780590677172
Pages
32 pages
Genre
historical
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
AD860L
Diversity Topics
Culture/Ethnicity; Immigrants and refugees; immigrant family; immigrant children; immigrant parents; migrants; migration; relocation; resettlement; emigration; asylum
Main Character
female chilld
Race/Ethnicities
White (Russian)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Carolyn W. Field Award, 2000, Winner, Illustrator
Sydney Taylor Book Award, 1999, Notable Book, Younger Reader
Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for PreK-Grade 6, 13th Edition, 2002 Struggle and Survival
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2000 Five to Nine Past
Best of the Bunch, 1999 Notable Books for Younger Readers
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2000 World History and Culture
Smithsonian Magazine's Notable Books for Children, 1999 Middle Reader
Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, 2000
Teachers' Choices, 2000 Intermediate
Keywords
cousins; Ellis Island Immigration Station; Judaism; Jewish; persecution; coat; extended family; epidemic
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Woodruff, Elvira, "The Memory Coat" (1999). Diverse Families. 1748.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1748