Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea #1)

Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea #1)
Author: Avi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545392470

Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face nothing but obstacles along the way--from stolen money to con men to hunger and fatigue. It seems that none of them will get out of the port city of Liverpool until fate brings them together. Avi's masterful plot-spinning skills create an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns.

Into the Storm (Beyond the Western Sea #2)

Into the Storm (Beyond the Western Sea #2)
Author: Avi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545502187

Avi's suspenseful seafaring adventure ESCAPE FROM HOME continues in INTO THE STORM.Fifteen-year-old Maura and twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell are finally free from the impoverished conditions of their small Irish village. Though they've made it onto the ship to America, there's still a treacherous journey ahead of them.In the storage hold, ten-year-old Laurence Kirkle struggles to survive and stay hidden as the ship's crew searches for stowaways to throw overboard. All three children are in search of a better world and a new home. But will they find what they're looking for in America?Once again, Avi skillfully creates an edge-of-your-seat adventure brimming with action and heart.

The Escape from Home

The Escape from Home
Author: Avi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780531088630

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.

Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1911
Genre: Robin Hood (Legendary character)
ISBN:

Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.

Reinventing Britain

Reinventing Britain
Author: Andrew McDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520098625

"First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.