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They came from different places and different times. But they shared onedestination-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...Pastore, Clare is the author of 'Fiona McGilray's Story :a Voyage from Ireland in 1849' with ISBN 9780425187357 and ISBN 0425187357.
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