Annie Quinn in America
By: by Mical Schneider.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Fiction; Famines -- Ireland -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Juvenile fiction; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of their family to America, where they discover that both food and hardships abound.