Bibliograph

The carnival at Bray, by Jessie Ann Foley

Type

Label

The carnival at Bray, by Jessie Ann Foley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1030L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The carnival at Bray

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

890072228

Responsibility statement

by Jessie Ann Foley

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 6.5, 12, 12, 172422

Summary

Winner of the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize It''s 1993, and the Teen Spirit Generation pulses to the hum of the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is plucked from her blue-collar Chicago neighborhood to a small town on the Irish Sea. Surviving off 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 tragedy and first love simultaneously strike, Maggie embarks upon a forbidden quest to fulfill a dying wish. Her pilgrimage takes her from the coastal town of Bray to a dodgy youth hostel in Dubl

Target audience

juvenile

Classification