Amelia (17 page)

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Marita Conlon-McKenna
Illus. Donald Teskey

The horrors of the Famine are over, and the trilogy continues. In America, Peggy hears the call of the wild west. Back in Ireland, will Michael and Eily ever manage to get fields they can call their own?

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