num_pages: 432
description: The second book in the thrilling emigrant adventure saga that The Horn Book calls unremitting suspense... Like a rip-roaring, roller coaster ride...a real page turner.Twelve-year-old Patrick and 15-year-old Maura O'Connell are fleeing the ravages of Ireland's potato famine. In Book Two they are on board an immigrant ship, crowded into steerage, looking into the face of illness, death, and danger from sea, and from their of fellow passengers. When they land in Lowell, Massachusetts, their dreams of America are filled with more perils as they try to survive.
language: English
title: Lord Kirkle's Money
titlecomplete: Lord Kirkle's Money (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2)
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Kids, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 572
places: Lowell, Massachusetts
series: Beyond the Western Sea
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Bt Bound