The carnival at Bray / a novel by Jessie Ann Foley.
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 Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she&...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ashford, Connecticut :
Elephant Rock Books,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life-altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all--live.-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes afterword and questions and topics for discussion. |
| Physical Description: | 254 pages ; 21 cm |
| Audience: | Young Adult. |
| Awards: | Winner of the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize ; Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2015. Morris Debut Award finalist, 2015. |
| ISBN: | 9780989515597 0989515591 9781480678293 1480678295 |