Title: Streets of gold
Description: Fourteen-year-old Maureen and her family, refugees from the Irish potato famine of the 1840's, arrive in New York and struggle to make a place for themselves in an environment more hostile than they had imagined.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Irish Americans, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)