Wildflower Girl [Import] [Hardcover]

Marita Conlon-McKenna (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0862782759
• ISBN-13: 978-0862782757
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, July 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Wildflower Girl (Paperback)

The Great Famine in Ireland is over, but the three O'Driscol children of Under the Hawthorn Tree have been left orphaned, and even though they found their great aunts, they still dream of a better life. Eily, now eighteen, is grown up and has gotton married, and 15 year old Michael has gotten a job at the landlord's estate, taking care of horses. And thirteen year old Peggy, the youngest, has set off on her own for America. Can she survive the difficult ocean crossing and the harsh working conditions in what was called the land of oppurtunity?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best book ever, May 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wildflower Girl (Paperback)

this was a deeply moving book, al about a 13 year girl in ireland who feels trapped during the famine, so she goes to america, where she starts a new life as aa maid. it is an exellent sequal to under the hawthorn tree. the third book in the triligoy is called feilds if home. it is an exellent triligoy, and martine deserves credit for her fantastic passionate book

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great reveiw on Life, November 5, 2000

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Jennifer Lopez (San Fransisco, CAL. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wildflower Girl (Library Binding)

Peggy O'Driscol (13) is an aventurous girl that lives in Ireland. Her older sister Eily (18) and her older brother Micheal (15) have already started their lives in Ireland but Peggy yearns for more. She decides to go to America with neighbors and leaves on a giant ship to go to America. Along with a friend Peggy met on the ship, Sarah (15), she is helped to find as a maid work at a Women's Developing School. Can she survive being split away from Sarah and her neighbors, having nothing but perilous work laying infront of her? Read the book to find out.