Ellis Island Stories

Ellis Island #1-3

by Joan Lowery Nixon

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.

Library Binding

About the author

Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of her first YA novel more than twenty years ago. In addition to mystery/suspense novels, she wrote nonfiction and fiction for children and middle graders, as well as several short stories. Nixon was the first person to write novels for teens about the orphan trains of the nineteenth century. She followed those with historical novels about Ellis Island and, more recently for younger readers, Colonial Williamsburg. Joan Lowery Nixon died on June 28, 2003—a great loss for all of us.