Beyond the Western Sea
Subtitle: The Escape from Home (Beyond the Western Sea)
Publisher: Tandem Library; Turtleback
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780613067959
Subjects: Action & Adventure - General; Historical - United States - 19th Century; People & Places - Europe; Social Issues - Runaways; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Adventure and adventurers; Emigration and immigration; Fiction; Runaways; Children: Grades 3-4
First sentence: Just before dawn-that moment when time itself seems to stand still, when the whole world teeters on the edge of possibilities-a man looking like death's own shadow came scurrying down a bluff toward the tiny village of Kilonny in Ireland.