6/11/2023 0 Comments Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch![]() ![]() ![]() Rose and her 12-year-old sister Maureen are left to fend for themselves on the streets of New York City. This doesn't work out very well, in fact disastrously, so the mother leaves Rose and the next oldest daughter behind and returns to Ireland to be reunited with her husband and baby. The baby brother doesn't pass the physical exam at Ellis Island and abruptly, the father decides to take him back to Ireland, leaving the mother and other children to stay in New York with his brother. Rose is a teenager coming from Ireland in 1911 with her mother, father, younger sisters and baby brother. To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2002: This begins as a rather standard coming-to-America story, featuring the Atlantic crossing, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island-all new, of course, to YA readers who don't know this tale, which was the experience of millions of immigrants to America. ![]()
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