Region: Ireland

Materials from Ireland

The Irish Potato Famine

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

This book provides comprehensive information on the history leading up to the Irish potato famine, presents accounts of narrow escapes, and discusses the legacy of the event.

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Get Happy

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

Simple, rhyming text urges the reader to be happy by making such choices as teasing less and tickling more, or groaning less and giggling more.

Other Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Infant/toddler (ages 0-2), Picture Book, Rhymes/songs » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Edda

By Book Importer | Published: September 19, 2011

Everyone in the virtual universe of Edda is made of pixels-except Penelope. While her body is kept alive in a hospital bed, her avatar runs free, able to go anywhere and do anything, including create deadly weapons for Edda’s ruler, her guardian, Lord Scanthax. When Scanthax decides he wants to invade another virtual world, Erik/Cindella [...]

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The Circle Cast: The Lost Years of Morgan Le Fey

By Book Importer | Published: September 19, 2011

Britain, 480 AD. Saxon barbarians are invading, pushing the civilized British out of their own island. Morgan is the daughter of the governor of Cornwall. But when her father is murdered and her mother taken as the Uther Pendragon’s new wife, she has to flee to Ireland to avoid being murdered herself.
But Ireland is no [...]

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There’s a Wardrobe in My Monster!

By Book Importer | Published: September 14, 2011

Bored with her ordinary pets, Martha chooses a monster from the pet store, but as it outgrows its shoebox and turns into a great big ugly monster, she finds out that it is more trouble than she expected.

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Sisters . . . No Way!

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Cindy, a savvy yet cynical teenager, still traumatized by her mother’s recent death, is appalled when her father falls in love with one of her teachers, a woman with two teenage daughters of her own. She cannot imagine a worse fate than having her teacher as her stepmother, and as for the two prissy girls, [...]

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Long Story Short

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

From Ireland’s first laureate for children’s literature comes a story of abuse and neglect told with sincerity, heart, and a healthy dose of humor.  Jono has always been able to cope with his mother’s drinking, but when she hits his little sister Julie, he decides it’s time for them to run away. Told in Jono’s [...]

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The Ascension: A Super Human Clash

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

They’d done it. Not only had Roz, Abby, Lance, and Thunder survived their first battle with a super villain, they’d defeated him. Krodin was dead, and they had saved the world. Now everything could go back to normal-good old, boring normal. School. Parents. Friends. But three weeks later, the world suddenly changes. The United States [...]

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Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

Beverly, who is bossy and a bit of a snob, convinces her cautious friend Elizabeth to accompany her on an adventure to the island off the coast. Gerard, Beverly’s messy brother who is barely tolerated by the girls, insists on going with them and brings his cat. Things begin to look up when at the [...]

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The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane

By Book Importer | Published: June 9, 2011

In medieval Ireland, Theophane’s boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allowing the others to illustrate their work.

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