A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary by Norah McClintock

A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary

Dear Canada

Norah McClintock

176 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction childrens historical emotional sad slow-paced

Description

In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster — only to land in another.After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffi...

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