Land of promise

By Joan Lowery Nixon

Subjects: Family problems, Family life, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Irish Americans, Emigration and immigration, fiction

Description: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.