Bibliograph

Maggie's door, Patricia Reilly Giff

Type

Label

Maggie's door, Patricia Reilly Giff

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

720, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Maggie's door

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

237789221

Responsibility statement

Patricia Reilly Giff

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 5.0, 5.0, 74694.

Summary

416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America--the ultimate goal for Nory Ryan as she flees her famine-ridden home in mid-1800s Ireland. Twelve-year-old Nory Ryan lives with her family on the west-central coast of Ireland. She is worried that they may be evicted from their subsistence-level farm any day and hopes their father will come back from sea with money to save them. At the onset of the Irish Potato Famine in 1845, many families decide to immigrate to America. The Ryans want to join the other families. One by one, Nory's family departs for a new life in America. Nory is the last to go. Keeping her sister Maggie's address close to her heart, Nory embarks on the perilous, heart-breaking journey to Galway and onward. Meanwhile, her friend Sean Red Mallon is just a few days ahead, traveling with his mother and Nory's little brother, Patch, with the same destination in mind. In alternating voices, Nory and Sean tell their stories--the grueling day-by-day struggle, as the protagonists suffer injuries, thievery, separations, and horrific sea passages

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification