The New Moon: The Story of Dick Martin's Courage, His Silver Sixpence and His Friends in the New World

TitleThe New Moon: The Story of Dick Martin's Courage, His Silver Sixpence and His Friends in the New World
Year of Publication1924
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes251 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsMeigs, Cornelia L.
PublisherMacmillan
CityNew York
Keywordsimmigrants; Irish Americans; pioneers
Abstract

Follows Dick Martin, an Irishman who finds a sixpence, sails to Philadelphia, and becomes a frontiersman in Western Pennsylvania.

Author Biography

Cornelia Meigs (1884-1973) was a professor at Bryn Mawr College whose novel Swift Rivers was a 1933 Newbery Medal Honor Book.

Time

1700s