A picnic in October

Description:

A boy finally comes to understand why his grandmother insists that the family come to Ellis Island each year to celebrate Lady Liberty's birthday.

subjects: Emigration and immigration,  Fiction,  Italian Americans,  Juvenile fiction,  Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.),  Children's fiction,  Family, fiction,  Picnicking, fiction,  Immigration and emigration,  Italian americans, fiction,  Statue of liberty (new york, n.y.), juvenile literature