Title: Maureen the detective
Description: When her parents died, young Maureen O'Callaghan was sent from Ireland to the United States to begin a new life in the Stevenson family. At age eleven, she's ready to become a U.S. citizen-just as soon as she can solve the case of who's stealing artwork from her employer's mansion. Maureen the Detective is an exciting mystery and an intriguing look at what drew, and continues to draw, so many people to the shores of America.
Subjects: Immigrants, Juvenile fiction, Christian life, Minnesota, Fiction, Stealing, Art thefts, History, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century