Hello, America Book Reveiw

For Lit. Circles this semester I choose the book Hello, America by Livia Bitton-Jackson.  This book was about an immigrant that came to America after surviving the Holocaust.  I chose this book because in 7th grade we learned a lot about the Holocaust and I always wondered what the survivors did when it was all over.   

When I found out that I had to read this book for lit. circles, I didn't really want to because it didn't seem as exiting as all of the other books, but it turned out that out of all of my Lit. Circle books so far his year I liked this one the best.  The reason why is because it was a lot easier to understand, it was really informative, and it was entertaining.  Unlike the previous book's I read this was a happy book, it was about how happy Elli was starting her new life in America & how great her new life was.  I liked reading this book because I liked learning about what America was like back in the 1940's, I don't know why but I like learning about that kind of stuff.  I enjoyed reading this book, and at the same time I was learning  a lot.  

I would recommend this book to people that want to learn about what peoples life's were like when they first immigrate to America because I think that many new immigrant's in the 1940's  could relate to Elli's immigration experience.  I would also recommend this to people who would like to learn about what life was like back in the 1940's because there were many differences as opposed to what life is like in America today.  

Reading this book helped me understand how difficult it was being a new immigrant in America,  coming to a completely new country where everything is different.  There were so many people in history that had to go though this experience and immigrate to a new country and there are still people that have to go through this today. Reading this book really helped me appreciate my life and be grateful for all of the opportunities that I have.