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Title: So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America Series)
ISBN: 0590926675
Author:
Barry Denenberg
Publicate Date: 1997-10-01
Publish: 1997-10-01
List Price: $10.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Library Binding
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1: good book
'voyag of the great tittanic' was about a girl who travels to new york on the tittanic. while she is abord she meets new people and she says what she did while on abourd. later in to the book when the ship is sinking it tels how everyone is trying to make it out.
i would recemend this book because i learned something from the book that i did not know befor. it was also intresting to know things from first person.
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2: a book to read
"so far from home" is about a 13 year old girl who travels to america from irland. while she is their she works in sweat shop to earn money for he rpearrents so they can come to. this book also shows how tough the irish had it back then and how mistreated they were by the yankees
i would recemend this book becuase it is intresting looking at thing from the way those poeople lived back then.
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3: So Far From Home
Mary Driscol, or "Quiet One" as her sentimental aunt calls her, lives in a land of tragedy and gloom, starvtion and fear. Ireland, 1847. Not only the potatoe famine afflicts the Irish people: They are persecuted by unreasonable Eglish land lords who ought to be helping them in their time of need. Desperate to start a new life for her family, Mary ventures to America, where she hopes to earn money to pay for her parents' voyage by working in a mill in Massechusetts. She gets a job, stays with her aunt, who is a school teacher, and makes a friend named Annie, who is an American girl. But her struggles are not over. She has an overbearing boss, a prejudiced co-worker, and the hardships of daily life to contend with. But she finds contentment in making the most of her blessings, in prayer, in singing her mother's old lullabye to herself, and in the hopes that, one day, she will be re-united with her family. A touching, poignant story of a brave Irish girl who made her little world a better place. I highly reccomend.
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4: Going to America
So Far From Home is about a girl (Mary) who moves from Ireland to America to live with her aunt and to work at a mill. On the ship when she is traveling to America, she meets the O'Donalds and a boy named Sean. The O' Donalds have a daughter already in America (her name is Alice). While on the ship the O' Donald's end up dying from black fever. So Mary decides to go find Alice. When she finds Alice, Sean's uncle decides to take her in. After a while Mr. Quinn (Sean's uncle) sends Alice to a convent. There was a group of people who didn't like the Irish so they started a mob. Sean goes to the convent to keep Alice out of danger and brings her to his uncle. Then he goes back to the convent to stop the mob. He ends up getting arrested and Mary goes on a quest to save him.
I really liked this book because it is emotional and easy to read. I say it's emotional because when she is on the ship the O'Donalds die. Also Later in the book when she is with her aunt, she finds out that her parents are dying and won't be able to come to America. Like I said this book is easy to read I read it in two hours. As you can see I really liked So Far From Home and I think you would, too.
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5: Not Best Dear America Book
I must say, when I read So Far From Home, I was a little disappointed. It was surely not as good as other Dear America books, and not very good period. I felt the story line was far too rushed, and could have been longer, it also ended too abruptly. The epilogues was weird too, and not as complete as other epilogues in the series. The characters I felt were not relatable as other Dear America characters. Overall, the book was alright, but surely not my favorite in the series.
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