Beyond the western sea /
Avi.
- New York : Orchard Books, c1996.
- 2 v. (xi, 380 ; ix, 295 p.) ; 23 cm.
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Book one: The escape from home ; Book two: Lord Kirkle's money.
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.