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Flood

2002
After his mother and stepfather die in a Vancouver mudslide, eleven-year-old Andy Flynn, having been saved by leprechauns, is taken by his stern aunt to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he meets the charming father he thought was dead, and where he must decide what place to call home.

Brida

a novel
2009
While on a quest for knowledge, Brida, a young Irish girl, encounters two individuals who teach her about magic; a forest hermit, who helps her to realize the goodness in the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance and pray to the moon; but while this knowledge soaks in Brida struggles to balance her priorities.

Siobhan's journey

a Belfast girl visits the United States
1993
Text and colorful photographs describe the experiences of ten-year-old Siobhan McNulty, a girl from Northern Ireland who spent six weeks with a New Jersey family as a part of Project Children.

The graves are walking

the great famine and the saga of the Irish people
2012
Chronicles the tragedy of the nineteenth century Irish famine, analyzing the potato famine itself from agricultural science through the English politics and policy decisions that made it worse, to the impact of the Irish immigration in America.

Ireland in flight

1982
The story of the Irish immigrants to Canada and the United States in the 1800s and the hardships they endured before, during, and after their voyages.

Kim

1990

Nell Dunne

Ellis Island, 1904
2000
Nell Dunne, an Irish girl, is concerned about being separated from her family when they reach Ellis Island.

Torn away

2003
Forcibly deported to Canada because of his terrorist activities in Northern Ireland, thirteen-year-old Declan must choose between his revolutionary past and a new life with his Canadian relatives.

Murphy's law

a Molly Murphy mystery
2002
Molly Murphy never dreamed she would become a killer, but after she strikes out in self-defense, she finds herself on the run from the police and trying to adjust to her new identity.

Kim

1966

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