Denenberg, Barry.

So far from home the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl by Barry Denenberg. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 1997. - 170 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

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.



0590926675 (alk. paper)


Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Textile workers -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.

PZ7.D4135

Fic. D392s 1997