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Nory Ryan's Song |
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Patricia Reilly Giff |
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By 1845, 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.
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