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Land of Promise

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Irish immigrant Rose Carney has a difficult life in Chicago. She’s working to help pay for her mother’s and sisters’ passages, dealing with her father’s drinking problem, and worrying about her brothers’ involvement in questionable activities. Rose becomes committed to a campaign to clean up Chicago and fight for world peace, but she knows her family responsibilities come first. With everything that’s happening in her life, can Rose hold on to her American dream?
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    • Booklist

      December 1, 1993
      Gr. 6-9. A continuation of the story of the three immigrant girls who met aboard ship in "Land of Hope", this book opens with their arrival in America in the early 1900s. Rebekah and her Russian family stay in New York. Rosie, from Ireland, travels with Kirsten's Swedish family as far as Chicago, where she's met by her older brother. Kirsten and her family go on to Minnesota. Although Rosie is happy to be reunited with her father and brothers and enjoys her new job as a salesperson in a dry-goods store, she still has problems adjusting to her new life: she misses her mother and sisters still in Ireland; her father, lonely and unhappy, spends his evenings in the local tavern; one brother is involved in shady city politics; the other, hurt at work, is unemployed. When further tragedies strike, it's up to Rosie to find the solution. With a nice blend of historical fact and involving plot strands, the latest in Nixon's Ellis Island trilogy gives modern readers an absorbing glimpse of America's past. ((Reviewed Dec. 1, 1993))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1993, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 1993
      When sixteen-year-old Rose Carney arrives in Chicago at the turn of the century, she joins her father, who emigrated from their Irish farm earlier. She gets a job to help support the family and to save money to bring her mother and younger sisters to America. Although Nixon includes much historical information, the character of Rose feels contrived.

      (Copyright 1993 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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