As the potato blight that leads to the Irish Famine takes its toll on her family, 12-year-old Nory Ryan must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, and to find a way to help her family survive. An ALA Notable Book.
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.
Winner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2001 Winner of ALA Notable Children's Book 2001 Winner of Arkansas Charlie May Simon Master List 2002 Winner of Maine Student Book Master List 2001 Nominated for Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award 2003
“Reviewed in BooksellingKids' Pick of the Lists Part Twofor October 2000. From the Hardcover edition.”
Reviewed in Bookselling Kids' Pick of the Lists Part Two for October 2000.
Patricia Reilly Giff has written more than 50 books for young readers, including the Kids of the Polk Street School series.
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