This novel in verse, a Great Stone Face nominee, was written by Patricia Reilly Giff in homage to her Irish ancestors. It is a historical fiction story of a young girl and her family who live a hard life in Ireland in the late 1800's. Their life becomes more difficult when the English lords start raising rents and forcing them out of their homes. She may be just a slip of a girl, but her strength and love for her remaining family and her desire that they retain their home enable her to stand up with the other Irish to start a land war against the English. Strewn with primary source images, it was a difficult and heart-breaking story of struggle but also one of hope and love. (FIC GIF)
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