Denenberg, Barry.

So far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl / by Barry Denenberg. - New York : Scholastic, 1997. - 170 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm. - Dear America ; 7 .

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.

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


Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction.

PZ7.D4135 / So 1997

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