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Name: So Far From Home

Full name: So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl

Author: Barry Denenberg
Year: 2003
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction, Fiction, Young adult, Children

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ISBNs:
9780439555067
9780590926676
043955506X
0590926675

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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