Avi, 1937-

Beyond the western sea. Book 1, The escape from home / Escape from home Avi. - New York : Avon, c1996. - ix, 325 p. ; 20 cm. - Avon Camelot book .

Wilson's Junior High School, August 1997 Elem. School Library Collection, March 1998 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), February 1997 School Library Journal, June 1996 Booklist starred, February 1996 Horn Book Starred, September 1996 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002 Pub Weekly, April 1996 Book Report, September 1996 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 1996

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

5.5 5-8 Follett Library Resources

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Immigration and emigration--Fiction.
Runaway teenagers--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.


Ireland--Fiction.
England--Fiction.

PZ7.A953 / Be 1997

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