So Far From Home
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Barry Denenberg
Barry Denenberg
2003 • 144 pages

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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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Dear America

Dear America is a 39-book series with 39 released primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Kathryn Lasky, Kristiana Gregory, and Barry Denenberg.

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Slave Girl: The Diary Of Clotee, Virginia, USA 1859

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