Title: The Escape From Home
First published: October 1996
Description: Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them ogether, the three join forces in a daring scheme that may lead to freedom and glory...or dire consequences.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Emigration and immigration, Runaway teenagers, Runaways in fiction, Emigration and immigration in fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Runaways, England in fiction, Adventure stories, Runaway children, Immigration and emigration, Adventure fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure, JUVENILE FICTION / Family, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe, United states, history, fiction, Runaways, fiction, England, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Siblings, fiction, Ireland, fiction
Places: England