by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
When Kate goes to her very first Irish dancing lesson she is smitten: It’s like flying, she decides. It’s the best thing she’s ever done. But, coming from a poor family in Dublin’s Liberties in the 1930s, how can Kate continue with her dancing? How...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
Until the whispers began, Joshua was like all the other village boys, helping out at the market, making a little money from the tourists, getting up to mischief. So what if his father was the only butcher in a village of fishermen, a loner who preferred to spend his...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
The Island of Ghosts is a haunting story that takes place on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. When Dara and Brendan don’t return from their sailing trip with Mr Webb to the Island of Ghosts, everyone in the village assumes they have drowned, except...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Class Novel
The mysterious arrival of Bella Blackwell, ‘The Bird Woman’, to the village of Ballyglen disturbs the peace and quiet of the Murphy household next door. Granny Rose is suspicious of Bella, and Rory doesn’t trust her, but ten-year-old Mia falls under...
by admin | Oct 23, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway sees it all as glorious, and loves the British Army for which his father is fighting. But when war comes to his own streets Jimmy’s loyalties are divided. The...
