Nory Ryan's Song
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · September 10, 2002
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A clear-eyed family story where potatoes, rent, and survival are bound together.
- Themes
- Family survival, Famine and starvation, Land displacement
- Genres
- Historical Europe, Homelessness & Poverty, Family Stories
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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.
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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.
Land and Larder
A clear-eyed family story where potatoes, rent, and survival are bound together.
Come here for
- A glimpse of life on Ireland’s west coast
- Food and land at the heart of family survival
Expect
- A twelve-year-old’s courage and ingenuity
- A straightforward story shaped by hardship and hope
Where it sits
| Historical Europe | 83% |
|---|---|
| Homelessness & Poverty | 30% |
| Family Stories | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Family Stories
- Historical Europe
- Homelessness & Poverty
- Authors
- Patricia Reilly Giff
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- September 10, 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Family survival · Famine and starvation · Land displacement
- Reading lane
- Family Stories