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
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Textile workers -- Fiction; Diaries -- Fiction; Lowell (Mass.) -- 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.