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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Ireland, 1963 Three boys. Different backgrounds. For Liam Tobin, his life is perfect. A loving family, in the greatest place in the world. Cork, Ireland. Patrick, his friend, lives three doors up, but a million miles away. Hugo Fitzhenry is lost, without Liam and Patrick, life would be unbearable. Through the course of their adolescence and early adulthood their loyalty and friendship has been deep and unquestioned. but how far can it go? Where is...
4) Skippy dies
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Set in Ireland in the early 1970s, this story stars twin brothers Patrick and Dom Finnerty, who have their world turned upside down when their house and all they possess is burned to the ground. Displaced, the family moves into their summer seaside cottage. Now in the middle of winter, the cottage seems dull, bleak, and quite eerie. Suffering from horrible nightmares, the boys' bond of brotherly love is put to the test when they discover that the...
7) Sing Street
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, �ber-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem:...
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