So far from home [videorecording] / line producer, Lena Cordina ; teleplay by Jill Soffer ; directed by Stacey Stewart Curtis. - [New York] : Scholastic, c1999. - 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. - Dear America .

Based on the Scholastic book series Dear America.

Director of photography, Barry Bergthorson ; editor, Richard Wells ; music by Jack Lenz and Douglas John Cameron. Director of photography, Barry Bergthorson ; editor, Richard Wells ; music by Jack Lenz and Douglas John Cameron.

IWith the potatoe famine devasting her home land in Ireland, Mary Driscoll must leave her parents to seek out a better life in America. Mary finds work in a mill, where working conditions are dreadful. When a friend is accused of murder, Mary must decide to face her fears and sacrifice everything to save him.

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