Download or read book The Escape from Home written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.