The Orphan Of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure is a 1997 children's novel by Elvira Woodruff.
The events of the novel take place at Ellis Island, where a boy, Dominic, is on a class trip with his new class shortly after being placed in a new foster home, and eventually finds his way into a janitorial closet. He falls asleep. When he wakes up, there is no one there. Lonely and afraid, he picks up display telephones talking to the recordings that are the voices of immigrants who talk about their lives and their journey to America. Someone answers him and all of a sudden he has been transported back in time. He finds himself in Italy in 1908 on top of a green hill where he meets new friends named Antonio (7), Salvatore (10) and Francesco Candiano who are all brothers. They are poor and have no family. Dominic is confused and asks where he is and what year it is. The boys think he has lost his memory from the hurricane that recently passed. The boys instantly become friends and have adventures, encounter danger and even deal with loss as they are on their way to America.