by Elvira Woodruff
my personal collection, paperback, 174 pages
Before donating this to PRMS, I decided to re-read it. Dominic Cantori is an orphan who has gone from one foster home to the next because "things just don't work out." On a school trip to Ellis Island, he falls asleep and has a "conversation" with an Italian man on one of the museum's phones. Then Dominic travels back in time and meets a trio of Italian brothers.
Sweet story. A bit young - the protagonist is a fifth grader and it reads like an elementary book. Nice historical fiction for young readers, though. It really captures aspects of the immigrant experience, like the crowded passage on the ships and names being changed for convenience.
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