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.