Twist of Gold

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Two Irish children, hounded by starvation and plague, escape the potato famine and leave behind three dead siblings as well as a dying mother to venture by sailing ship to America in search of their father. The kids find themselves working the streets of Boston before heading west across the continent via riverboat and wagon train to find their father.  On their journey, Sean and Annie encounter crooks, are shipwrecked, and get stranded in the desert; but they prevail.

Twist of Gold

Year Released: 2004

Grades 4-6