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Title: So Far From Home : The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America) by Barry Denenberg ISBN: 0-590-92667-5 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (41 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: So Far From Home is an excellent book. It is about an Irish girl named Mary Driscoll. She travels to America because her family is starving. She has to face many hardships. Mary does met some friends in America, which help her out and make her feel comfortable in her new home. This book is realistic and exciting. It is beautifuly written. The book is also factual. It tells you about the Irish and how some people mistreated them. So Far From Home is a fantastic book and I suggest you read it.

Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great book!
Comment: This book, So Far From Home, is really good. I love the way it is written. It's about a girl called Mary Driscoll who moves from Ireland to America because of the potatoe famine. She does not go with her parents. In America she meets really nice people and makes some friends. She works in the Mills and tries to raise money for her parents so they can join her in America. This book shows America through an immagrint's point of view and how the life of a mill worker is. Whenever I read this book I cry at the end because it is so hopeful and pretty sad. This book is just pure beautiful. That might sound corny, but it is. It has funny parts and can be sad.

You should NOT read this book if you are sensitive. This book is very sad and has some disturbing parts in it, like when people eat pig droppings. You should try this book because it ROCKS!

Rating: 4
Summary: A bonus if you're interested in diaries
Comment: Mary Driscoll leaves her home in Ireland during the years of the potato famine to join her aunt and sister in Lowell, Massachusetts. Arriving, she lives with her aunt while working in the mills where she hopes to earn enough money so she could send for her parents who are still back in Ireland.

So Far From Home gives a look into what it might have been like for a young Irish girl who comes to American during the famine and works in the mills. It also shows how there were those who were against the Irish and those who did not want to hire them.

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