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So Far From Home is a Dear America book by Barry Denenberg. It is about a fifteen year old girl, Mary Driscoll, who went alone to America from an extremely poor part of Ireland where everyone was suffering. When she comes to America, she works at the mills trying to earn enough money to bring her parents to America so they can live with her and her older sister, Kate, and their Aunt Nora.

Will she raise enough money to bring her parents over so they can be a happy family -- or will it be too late?

04/04/00

In So Far From Home, Mary Driscoll must leave Ireland to go to the United States because the crop is not good. To make enough money to bring her family over, she must work at a mill. For a home, she stays at a family’s home nearby. At the end of the story, she and her family are reunited and find a home in the countryside.

So Far From Home is kind of sad because Mary and her family have to be separated. Mary does have adventures in American and that make it worth reading.

1/27/00