Isabelle Holland
5) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In 1881 in New York City, teenaged Kevin O'Donnell, ever conscious of the prejudice against the Irish poor, struggles to support his sick father and young sister by working as a messenger for a prominent newspaper but finds his job threatened when he is falsely accused of stealing from his employer.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.