Last of the name / Rosanne Parry.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 335 pages : illustration, map; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- Children
- 9781541541597
- 1541541596
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Parry Rosanne | Available | 33111009706272 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Twelve-year-old Danny O'Carolan and his sister, Kathleen, arrive in New York City in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. Kathleen finds a job in domestic service for herself and Danny, hoping to keep Danny from being drafted into the US Army as a drummer boy. As he explores the city and shares his talent for Irish dancing, Danny discovers the vast variety of New York's neighborhoods. With the threat of the draft pitting Irish immigrants against the free Black population, stoking tensions between the rich and the poor, and threatening the life Danny hopes to build, can he find a safe place to call home?
In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland.