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Twelve-year-old Patrick and 15-year-old Maura O'Connell are fleeing the ravages of Ireland's potato famine. In Book Two, they are on board an immigrant ship, crowded into steerage, looking into the face of illness, death, and danger from sea, and from the fellow passengers. When they land in Lowell, Massachusetts, their dreams of America are filled with more perils as they try to survive.
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