BOOK: So far from home by Denenberg

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

So far from home [Dear America series]
by Barry Denenberg
        This is a fictional diary of an Irish girl who comes to
America in 1847 to work in the mills. She describes the famine in
Ireland, the harsh trip over, and what it was like to work in the
mills.  Prejudice agains the Irish is also covered.  Scholastic has a
hit with this series and I will try to get them all.  The books
in this series all have a nice historical narrative at the end
to give the reader some information about the period covered. This
would be a good companion to Lyddie by Paterson which is also about
the life of a girl in the same mills.  I picked this 166 page book in
our Book Fair.
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Frederick Muller
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