Nory Ryan's Song
Feb 2009 · Yearling
3.9star
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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.
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3.9
8 reviews
Karen Burzdak
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8 November 2019
The Dufficy family from Roscommon obviously came to the USA due to the potato famine and further starving by the English.
Kimya Dunbar
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24 February 2017
it pretty boring.i had to read it for homework though
Gold Myrrh
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17 March 2014
About the author
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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