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Denenberg, Barry

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

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.

ISBN: 0590926675 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 97005846 /AC

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Textile workers--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Lowell (Mass.)--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.D4135 / So 1997

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