01165cam a2200313 4500 427807652 TxAuBib 20001001120000.0 970212s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97005846 9780590926676 alk. paper 0590926675 alk. paper (OCoLC)36417805 DLC DLC MEY TxAuBib Denenberg, Barry. So far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl / by Barry Denenberg. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1997. 170 p. : ill., maps ; 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. 20090707. Irish Americans Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Textile workers Fiction. Lowell (Mass) Fiction. Diaries Fiction. Dear America.