Beyond the western sea.

by Avi

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Published 1997 by Avon Books in New York .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction,
• Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction,
• Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction,
• England -- Juvenile fiction

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About the Edition

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord"s runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

Edition Notes

Other titles	Cecilia Bard Multicultural Library for Peace, Escape from home
Statement	Avi.
Genre	Juvenile fiction.
The Physical Object
Pagination	ix, 325 p. ;
Number of Pages	325
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL22859292M
ISBN 10	0380728753

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Title: Beyond the Western Sea Book One "Escape from Home" Author: Avi # of Pages: Beyond the Western Sea is a book full of suspense. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good book. There are many twists and turns from start to end, along with a very suspenseful ending making you want to read on. Beyond the Western Sea by Avi, Orchard Books, About The Book It is 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. For Sir Laurence Kirkle, eleven and son of one such English lord, America holds the promise of justice, though.

Fifteen-year-old Maura and twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell are finally free from the impoverished conditions of their small Irish village. Though they've made it onto the ship to America, there's still a treacherous journey ahead of them. In the storage hold, ten-year-old Laurence Kirkle struggles to survive and stay hidden as the ship's crew searches for /5. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such (see Wikipedia: Book series). Like many concepts in the book world, "series" is a somewhat fluid and contested notion. A good rule of thumb is that series have a conventional name and are intentional creations, on the part of the author or publisher. For now, avoid.   Beyond the western sea Item Preview remove-circle "A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World Pages:

  Beyond the western sea by Avi, Publication date Topics Book 2: Lord Kirkle's money Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a Pages:   Into the Storm: Beyond the Western Sea Book Two. Avi. Scholastic Inc., Nov 1, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. Avi's suspenseful seafaring adventure ESCAPE FROM HOME continues in INTO THE STORM. Fifteen-year-old Maura and twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell are finally free from the impoverished conditions of their small Irish. From an author who's made a career of experimenting with different narrative structures comes this first sprawling tale in The Escape From Home books; it's done as a Victorian serial novel with a huge cast, and a multiplicity of short chapters setting out an episodic plot replete with chance meetings, narrow escapes, and dismaying revelations. Unable to bear the bullying of his older .