WildFlower Girl

by Marita Conlon-McKenna

Book Overview

In the mid-nineteenth century, thirteen-year-old Peggy O'Driscoll sets out alone from Ireland for America, hoping to make a better life for herself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086278283X
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: O'Brien
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.5" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Great reveiw on Life

Peggy O'Driscol (13) is an aventurous girl that lives in Ireland. Her older sister Eily (18) and her older brother Micheal (15) have already started their lives in Ireland but Peggy yearns for more. She decides to go to America with neighbors and leaves on a giant ship to go to America. Along with a friend Peggy met on the ship, Sarah (15), she is helped to find as a maid work at a Women's Developing School. Can she survive being split away from Sarah and her neighbors, having nothing but perilous work laying infront of her? Read the book to find out.

It was a very emotional and well writen book.

The book made me cry many a time.It did'nt take me long to read as it was hard to put down.I thought it was good but Under the Hawthorn Tree was better.I am looking forward to reading Fields of Home.

the best book ever

this was a deeply moving book, al about a 13 year girl in ireland who feels trapped during the famine, so she goes to america, where she starts a new life as aa maid. it is an exellent sequal to under the hawthorn tree. the third book in the triligoy is called feilds if home. it is an exellent triligoy, and martine deserves credit for her fantastic passionate book

Great book!

The Great Famine in Ireland is over, but the three O'Driscol children of Under the Hawthorn Tree have been left orphaned, and even though they found their great aunts, they still dream of a better life. Eily, now eighteen, is grown up and has gotton married, and 15 year old Michael has gotten a job at the landlord's estate, taking care of horses. And thirteen year old Peggy, the youngest, has set off on her own for America. Can she survive the difficult ocean crossing and the harsh working conditions in what was called the land of oppurtunity?