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Release Date: 08/27/2019
Publisher: Holiday House
Classification: CH Fiction
Classification: CH Fiction
Series: N/A
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: History, European
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Read by: Alana Kerr Collins
Duration: 114 minutes
Run Time: 114 minutes
Audio Library Digital - 9781974986125
Audio Retail Digital - 9781974986132
2 Audio CD(s) - 9781974986101
1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781974986149
Playaway - 9781974986156

A Slip of a Girl

By Patricia Reilly Giff

Genre: History, European

Audio Library Digital

09/24/2019

114 minutes

9781974986125

Audio Retail Digital

09/24/2019

114 minutes

9781974986132

Audio CD

09/24/2019

2 Audio CD

114 minutes

9781974986101

Audio MP3 CD

09/24/2019

1 Audio MP3 CD

114 minutes

9781974986149

Playaway

09/24/2019

114 minutes

9781974986156

Description:

For Anna, the family farm has always been home... but now things are changing. Anna's mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving Anna and her father to care for a young sister with special needs. And even though their family has worked this land for years, they're in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent. When a violent encounter with the Lord's rent collector results in Anna and her father's arrest, all seems lost. But Anna sees her chance and bolts from the jailhouse. On the run, Anna must rely on her own inner strength to protect her sister—and try to find a way to save her family. Written in verse by a master of historical fiction, A Slip of a Girl is a poignant story of adversity, resilience, and self-determination that paints a haunting picture of the tensions in the Irish countryside in the early 1890s and the aftermath of the Great Famine.

Quotes:

The work is told in verse, and the soft Irish lilt of the narration is perfect for this emotional story of the difficulties of the poor Irish beholden to their English landlords., Booklist

"Written in verse, ""A Slip of a Girl"" by Patricia Reilly Giff is a poignant and deftly written story of adversity, resilience, and self-determination by a master of historical fiction, painting a haunting history of the tensions in the Irish countryside of the early 1890s, and the aftermath of the Great Famine.", Midwest Book Review

"Narrator Alana Kerr Collins's exquisite performance vividly brings this story to life. Collins delivers Giff's eloquent language with heart as her Irish lilt becomes the voice of young Anna.", Audiofile

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