The Banshee
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
Megan's Year
Ten-year-old Megan Brady tells of her family's lifestyle, spending summers traveling in a caravan through the Irish countryside getting work where they can, and winters in Dublin so the children can attend school.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
Ireland Is My Home
Presents the life of an eleven-year-old boy and his family in Ireland, describing his home and school activities and discussing the history, geography, people, government, economy, and culture of his country.
941.7
year: 1993
copies: 3
call number/section: 941.7
lexile:
Bog Child
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles, " eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: political prisoners, bog bodies, families, political violence, terrorism, ireland [X], family, family life [X]
The White Horse Trick
On an Earth beset by climate troubles where only the tyrannical Commander has the option of modern, "civilized" life, children begin to go missing, abducted by the Commander's agents.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
The Last Of The High Kings
When eleven year old jenny Liddy, in turmoil over learning that she is a changeling, makes a deal with a devil creature, she endangers the human race, but her own cleverness, her human and fairy fathers, and the last of Ireland's High Kings help to make things right.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
The Angel Of Mill Street
On a snowy Christmas Eve in the late 1800s, Frances and her family wait and worry when beloved Uncle Ambrose, who has a crippled leg, does not come home as expected.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Meanwhile Adventures
When Mister Mack gets arrested for supposedly robbing the bank, it is up to Rover the dog and the Mack children to rescue him and find their Guinness-record-breaking mother who is running around the world.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: family life [X], humorous fiction, family, humorous stories, dublin (ireland), ireland [X]
December
Fifteen-year-old Cal reaches the final month in the 365 day countdown and discovers he must escape the country and head to Ireland to find out what really happened to his father.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
Small Beauties
Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares "family memories" with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: emigration and immigration, family life [X], historical fiction, immigration and emigration, ireland [X]
Creature Of The Night
Bobby recklessly smokes, drinks, and steals cars in Dublin, and when his mother relocates the family to a small cottage in the countryside, Bobby believes a certain spookiness lurks in the corners of the new home.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
The Fire Opal
While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
Over The Water
Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where her family lives and in Ireland where they're from, until she and her family visit her grandmother and other relatives in Ireland and Mary gains a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Ireland
Presents the life of an eleven-year-old boy and his family in Ireland, describing his home and school activities and discussing the history, geography, people, government, economy, and culture of his country.
941.5
year: 1992
copies: 3
call number/section: 941.5
lexile:
Maura's Angel
Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: