Patricia Reilly Giff

«By 1845, Nory Ryan’s family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations. Maidin Bay is a beautiful place, full of magic and song, but life there is hard. Every year Nory’s family plants potatoes while Da sails away on a fishing boat to earn the rent money for Lord Cunningham. The English lord is bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so that he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing sheep.»