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The Banshee

author: Bunting, Eve
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
subjects: banshees, families, superstition, family life [X], ireland [X]

Megan's Year

author: Whelan, Gloria
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
subjects: irish travellers (nomadic people), family life [X], ireland [X]

Ireland Is My Home

author: Holland, Gini
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:
subjects: family life [X], ireland [X]

Bog Child

author: Dowd, Siobhan
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

The White Horse Trick

author: Thompson, Kate
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
subjects: climate, fairies, refugees, family life [X], ireland [X]

The Last Of The High Kings

author: Thompson, Kate
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
subjects: family life [X], changelings, fairies, ireland [X], animals, mythical, musicians, family

The Angel Of Mill Street

author: Weller, Frances Ward
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:
subjects: uncles, christmas, family life [X], people with disabilities, ireland [X]

The Meanwhile Adventures

author: Doyle, Roddy
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

December

author: Lord, Gabrielle
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
subjects: teenagers, boys, fathers, family life [X], secrecy, australia, ireland [X]

Small Beauties

author: Woodruff, Elvira
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

Creature Of The Night

author: Thompson, Kate
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

author: Mcbride, Regina
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
subjects: supernatural, families, mythology, celtic, family life [X], ireland [X]

Over The Water

author: Casey, Maude
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:
subjects: farm life, mothers and daughters, aunts, family life [X], ireland [X]

Ireland

author: Holland, Gini
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:
subjects: family life [X], ireland [X]

Maura's Angel

author: Banks, Lynne Reid
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
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subjects: angels, family life [X], belfast (northern ireland), ireland [X]

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