So far from home
Subtitle: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
By: by Barry Denenberg
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Dear America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780590926676; 9780439445627
Subjects: Irish Americans; Diaries; Textile workers; Juvenile fiction; Immigrants; Fiction
Description: In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.