Clare - Paperback

by Susan Lynn Peterson (Author)

Clare Keane is fourteen years old when her mother dies of pneumonia in the tenement room they share in turn-of-the-century Cork, Ireland. Left with two younger brothers, her closest family thousands of miles away in St. Paul, Minnesota, Clare begins a dangerous journey that takes her from Cork through the port of Queenstown to Ellis Island, New York, and finally St. Paul. Rich in historical detail, Clare allows the reader to live the sights, sounds, and smells of a 1906 journey of immigration.

Author Biography

Susan Lynn Peterson is the author of five books and several hundred articles. Between them, the books have been translated into five languages and have garnered five book awards. Peterson holds a Ph.D. in Text Theory and is a teacher in both practice and temperament. These days, when she is not writing, she teaches karate and runs Alcuin Communications, a print media communications company in southern Arizona.