Synopses & Reviews
They came from different places and different times. But they shared one destination-and one dream.
Berkley Jam Books presents a new, beautifully packaged middle grade series celebrating the diversity of the American immigrant experience. Set in distinct time periods, each book follows a new teen girl as she leaves her native country, and chronicles her arrival and adjustment to America. In the first three books of the series, Fiona McGilray's family flees the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-1800s for the promise of Boston; Aniela Kaminski escapes Poland during World War II, and Chantrea Conway arrives from Cambodia in 1975. And for each of these girls, the world is waiting...
Synopsis
Kicking off the "Journey to America" book series is this story of a young Irish girl who arrives in Boston in 1849 with her brother. In a series of letters to her parents back home, Fiona describes her life in America, how she searches for family members there, and her experiences in making a new friend.