In 1993 sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch struggles to adjust to her family's move from Chicago to a small town on the Irish coast. When a beloved relative back home dies, leaving a posthumous request for Maggie to fulfill one of her lifelong dreams, Maggie sets out on a journey to honor the request and experiences transformative thrills, heartbreak, and joy in the process.
year: 2014
call number/section: 1000
subjects: teenage girls, juvenile fiction, moving, household, grief, fiction, ireland, juvenile fiction, fiction, coming of age, rock music, uncles
Editions
Foley, Jessie Ann
Elephant Rock Books YA (2014)
When sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch must relocate to a tiny seaside town in Ireland, she relies on care packages from her rocker uncle Kevin, but when she experiences first love and a death, Maggie heads off to explore the seedy side of Dublin, and then Rome.
Schools: 9
Foley, Jessie Ann
In 1993 sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch struggles to adjust to her family's move from Chicago to a small town on the Irish coast. When a beloved relative back home dies, leaving a posthumous request for Maggie to fulfill one of her lifelong dreams, Maggie sets out on a journey to honor the request and experiences transformative thrills, heartbreak, and joy in the process.
Schools: 10
Foley, Jessie Ann
Uprooted from Chicago to rural Ireland, Maggie searches for her place in the country she now calls home before enduring a tragedy that sends her on a pilgrimmage to fulfill her uncle's request.
Schools: 1