So far from home :

Denenberg, Barry.

So far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl / by Barry Denenberg. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 1997. - 170 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm. - Dear America .

"Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847"--Cover.

Book Links (A.L.A.) Multicultural Review Christian Library

During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had.

3.5 Follett Library Resources 5-8

0590926675 (alk. paper)

97005846 /AC


Irish Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Textile workers--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Textile workers--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction.
Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction.

PZ7.D4135 / So 1997

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