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The Fire Opal
By McBride, Regina
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38573-781-4
- Publisher
- Delacorte
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on March 17, 2011
Maeve and her family live on Ireland's western coast during the hard years of the late 16th century. Elizabeth I's reign has not been kind to the Irish people-hunger and tyranny abound. Maeve's world is made all the harder when her mother dissolves into a cata...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onMarch 17, 2011 | Booksmack!
Maeve and her family live on Ireland's western coast during the hard years of the late 16th century. Elizabeth I's reign has not been kind to the Irish people-hunger and tyranny abound. Maeve's world is made all the harder when her mother dissolves into a cata...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2010
Gr 7 Up—Set on the western Irish coast during the late 16th century, this book is narrated by Maeve O'Tullagh, the daughter of a fisherman whose happy existence is turned upside down when her baby sister dies. Pregnant again, her mother insists that her unborn child is the reincarnation of the one she lost and slips into distraction. A strange lady gives Maeve a talisman to protect her mother. When Mam removes it on the night of the baby's birth, she loses her mind completely. Maeve is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
As Elizabeth I's troops storm Ireland, fourteen-year-old Maeve O'Tullagh fights to save her mother and si...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
Maeve’s love for her family is powerfully rendered. Readers will be moved and will find Maeve’s quest to save her mother and sister compelling. The fantastic elements of the story are groun...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
