Beyond the Western Sea
Subtitle: The Escape from Home, Lord Kirkle's Money
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780531095478
Subjects: Stowaways; Action & Adventure - General; Historical - United States - 19th Century; Runaways; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); Emigration and immigration; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical; 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.