Synopsis
When Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work.
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21 July 2015
9780312535803Reviews
“Fast-paced, populated by distinctive characters, and anchored in Auch's convincing sense of time and place.” —School Library Journal
“Auch supplies vivid period detail and strong female characters. . . . Dear America graduates will be hooked.” —Publishers Weekly
“The facts are riveting . . . the prejudice as well as the support the sisters get from other immigrants. . . . A good addition to women's history titles.” —Booklist
