01078cam a2200289 4500 55696292 TxAuBib 20001128120000.0 990619s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 97-5846 9780590926676 $9.95 0590926675 $9.95 TxAuBib Denenberg, Barry. So far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl by / Barry Denenberg. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 1997. 170 p ; 20 cm. Dear America series ; 7 In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family. 19990619. Irish Americans Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Textile workers Fiction. Lowell (Mass.) Fiction. Diaries. Fiction. Dear America series ; 7.