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Tessa's Landing
Historical novel about the Irish famine, in which a young girl is sent to America to make one less mouth to feed.
America bound on a famine ship in close quarters!
1846, West Coast of Ireland. Though Tessa O'Melia's mother's soup is little more than water and her childhood friend has died of the hunger, she would never leave home. But when her father is jailed for killing a rich landlord who burned out his tenants huts to lower his taxes, sixteen-year-old Tessa--eldest of six--is sent alone on a famine ship to America, charged with making sure she will not be the last of the O'Melias.
However in New York, the man who promised to marry her fails to appear at the docks, and she loses the shipmate who has mothered her on the passge. Now Tessa must face the harsh truth and rely on her own determination to survive in a new world.
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