Thirteen-year-old Peggy O’Driscoll, left orphaned and homeless by the Great Famine of the 1840s, leaves Ireland to seek her fortune in America.
- ISBN: 9780823409884
- Author: Conlon-McKenna, Marita
- Published: 1992, Holiday House
- Themes: Death of parents, Hardship, homesickness, hunger, immigration and emigration, Loneliness, Orphans, Survival
- Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ireland, United States
- No. of pages: 173