Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side (Hardcover)

from ChelseaRose

I like that this book offers an intriguing amount of information that would get readers more interested in this subject. I also appreciate how relevant the subject of immigration is currently, and how themes in this book could be used in examining our current state. The book tells about the reaso...

from megan_henley

Tenement is the non-fiction telling of the hard living immigrants faced in the lower east side tenements in New York City. They were very small flats with no more than two rooms. They were often very dark and smelled of garbage. Because there was no running water and garbage piled high, many peop...

from emilee

good quote 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives

from jkessluk

I believe this book is intended for kids in the middle school age, and would be a good book for them to read, otherwise it was just an OK book. The photographs throughout the book were good but never really showed any extremes; for example the author mentions several families living in a tiny are...

from ChelseaRose

I like that this book offers an intriguing amount of information that would get readers more interested in this subject. I also appreciate how relevant the subject of immigration is currently, and how themes in this book could be used in examining our current state. The book tells about the reaso...