Beyond The Western Sea: Book One
Subtitle: The Escape From Home
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780531088630
Subjects: Historical - General; Runaways; Children: Grades 4-6; Emigration and immigration; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - History; Adventure and adventurers; Fiction
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.