by Avi · Scholastic Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780545379274
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«Escape from Home» is Avi's historical adventure novel, published by Scholastic Press in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In 1851, fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick flee Irish poverty to join their father in America. Laurence Kirkle, an eleven-year-old English boy, escapes his cruel older brother. Their paths cross in Liverpool harbour, where they face theft, deceit and exhaustion.
First instalment of the «Beyond the Western Sea» series (book 1 of 2). Reprinted edition in 2012; the novel was originally published in 1996.
Suitable for readers aged 8 to 10 interested in historical fiction and survival adventures.
Edward Irving Wortis, better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He won the Newbery Medal in 2003 for Crispin: The Cross of Lead, and was a runner-up in 1991 and 1992.
