Maggie's Amerikay
By: by Barbara Timberlake Russell ; pictures by Jim Burke.
Contributors: Burke, Jim, ill.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Immigrants -- Fiction; Irish Americans -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Family life -- Louisiana -- Fiction; New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In New Orleans in 1898, while her mother talks of saving to buy land and her father insists on the importance of an education, young Irish immigrant Maggie McCrary is determined to find her own way in the new place they call home.
Notes: "Melanie Kroupa books."