Jessie Ann Foley
In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself.
After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met.
While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy
...ALA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults
Chicago Weekly Best Books of 2014
Winner, The Michael L. Pritz Award
Winner, 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014
Finalist, William C. Morris Award
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the