A Slip of a Girl - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Patricia Reilly GiffAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2021-11-30Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823449989ISBN-10:082344998XUPC:9780823449989Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:Europe, Poverty & Homelessness, General (see also headings under Social Themes)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC91ND335Q
A heart-wrenching novel in verse about a poor girl surviving the Irish Land Wars, by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author. For Anna, the family farm has always been home... But now, things are changing. Anna's mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving Anna and her father to care for a young sister with special needs. And though their family has worked this land for years, they're in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent. When a violent encounter with the Lord's rent collector results in Anna and her father's arrest, all seems lost. But Anna sees her chance and bolts from the jailhouse. On the run, Anna must rely on her own inner strength to protect her sister--and try to find a way to save her family. Written in verse, A Slip of a Girl is a poignant story of adversity, resilience, and self-determination by a master of historical fiction, painting a haunting history of the tensions in the Irish countryside of the early 1890s, and the aftermath of the Great Famine. A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823449989ISBN-10:082344998XUPC:9780823449989Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:Europe, Poverty & Homelessness, General (see also headings under Social Themes)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC91ND335Q
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935 - 2021) was the author of more than one hundred children's books, including the Newbery Honor Award titles Lily's Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods. She spent twenty years teaching in the New York City public schools, and her Polk Street School series remains a popular chapter book mainstay. Some of her other middle grade novels include Genevieve's War, winner of the Christopher Award; Nory Ryan's Song, an ALA Notable Book; and A Slip of a Girl, which received two starred reviews.
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