Land of promise
By: Joan Lowery Nixon.
Series: Ellis Island
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.