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THE ESCAPE FROM HOME. BOOK ONE OF "BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA" by Avi,
Orchard, New York, 1996, 2nd printing.. 295 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0531095134 "It is 1851. Thousands are fleeing the Old World for the New, desperate to reach America. Maura and Patrick O'Connell, fifteen- and twelve-year-old Irish peasants, seek to. escape a country destroyed by famine and the greed of English landlords. Their emigration is a search for life itself. For Sir Laurence Kirkle, eleven and son of one such English lord, America holds the promise of justice, though he steals a for. tune from his fath er to get there. Colorful characters, young and old, pop up everywhere - Mr. Pickler, investigator, actor Horatio Drabble, and Fred No-name and Sergeant Rumpkin of the Lime Street Runners Association. And there are Mr. Clemspool . and Toby Grout, the Reverend Bartholomew, Ralph Toggs and the vile Mrs. Sonderbye. Are they helping the children or stealing from them? For Maura, Patrick and Laurence,it is often hard to know until it's too late. Indeed, how the O'Connells and . young Laurence come to share a common fate in the English city of Liverpool - embarkation port for America - makes for an adventure alive with ironic coincidence and surprise. Inspired by the Victorian novels published in serial form, which with ev. ery installment pres ented new and diverting answers to the question 'What will happen next?', (this book) offers more twists and turns of story than a nineteenth-century back alley. (The first volume) ends on a spectacular cliff-hanger. More susp. enseful fun awaits in 'Book Two: Lord Kirkle's Money'." Fine/Fine.
- Bookseller: Capricorn Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #: 23301
- Ages: 7 to 9 years
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0531095134
- ISBN 13: 9780531095133
- Publisher: Orchard, New York, 1996, 2nd printing.
- Date published: 1996
- Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 1 inches
- Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Keywords: Ireland, Irish peasants, Potato famine, Maura, Patrick O'Connell, Runaways, Cork, London, Mr. Pickler, Liverpool, Laurence, Lime Street Runners, Police, Emigrants, America, Victorian era.
- Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / General;
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