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A Slip of a Girl
Contributor(s): Giff, Patricia Reilly (Author)

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 ISBN: 0823439550     ISBN-13: 9780823439553
Publisher: Holiday House
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018040274
Age Level: 10-13
Grade Level: 5-8
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
- Ethnic Orientation - Irish
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Ireland
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/24/2019
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 108
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 64
School Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
 
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Publisher 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.

Anna's 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, they're in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent.

When a violent encounter with the Lord's rent collector results in Anna and her father's 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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