NORY RYAN'S SONG
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Yearling
ISBN: 0440418291
Ages 8-12
176 pages

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Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.


© Copyright 2003 by Patricia Reilly Giff. Reprinted with permission by Yearling, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

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