A Slip of a GirlAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 13 August 2019
Description
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.
Annas 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, theyre in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent.
When a violent encounter with the Lords rent collector results in Anna and her fathers 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
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