To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of their family to America, where they discover that both food and hardships abound.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: irish americans, fiction, famines, ireland, brothers and sisters, survival, emigration and immigration, ireland, history, famine, 1845-1852, fiction, emigration and immigration, immigration and emigration