Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
year: 1996, 1997, 1998
call number/section: 1000
subjects: emigration and immigration, fiction, runaway teenagers, adventure and adventurers, immigration and emigration, ireland, fiction, england, runaways, historical fiction
Editions
Avi
Orchard Books (1996)
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to interwine on board ship and in the new world.
Schools: 15
Avi
Avon (1997)
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
Schools: 6
Avi
Avon Camelot (1998)
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
Schools: 5