
Maura and Patrick have escaped the desperate poverty and danger of leaving home in Ireland to face even greater peril as they continue their daring voyage to the New World with their friend Laurence Kirkle. Aboard ship, they are crowded into the stench-filled pit of steerage,...





On a cold January day in 1851, twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell huddles on the deck of the Robert Peel. He is leaving his impoverished home behind in Ireland, while in America, his father is waiting with the promise of a new life. But as Patrick watches the shoreline fade from...

The second book in the thrilling emigrant adventure saga that The Horn Book calls unremitting suspense... Like a rip-roaring, roller coaster ride...a real page turner.Twelve-year-old Patrick and 15-year-old Maura O'Connell are fleeing the ravages of Ireland's potato famine. In...