Nory Ryans Song, Patricia Reilly Giff
Nory Ryans Song, Patricia Reilly Giff
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Nory Ryan's Song

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

Series: Nory Ryan

Narrator: Susan Lynch

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2008

Synopsis

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.

About The Author

Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of many beloved books for children. Several of her novels have been chosen as ALA Notable Books and ALA Best Books for Young Adults. They include Nory Ryan’s Song and the Newbery Honor Books Lily’s Crossing and Pictures of Hollis Woods. Lily’s Crossing was also chosen as a Boston Globe—Horn Book Honor Book. Her most recent book is Willow Run, the companion to Lily’s Crossing. These titles, as well as Water Street, are available on audio from Listening Library.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hilary on March 11, 2019

We read this hoping to find out more about the potato famine, which when you read the fact that twice the amount of food needed by the starving people was shipped out, stolen by the English would be more accurately called a genocide than a famine, I think that calling it a famine is offensive. We ce......more

Goodreads review by Wilma on July 16, 2016

Prachtig, aangrijpend verhaal over Nory Ryan. Zij weet het gezin op het Ierse platteland in leven te houden tijdens de vreselijke jaren 1845-1851, de jaren van An Gorta Mor, De Grote Hongersnood. Ik heb het verhaal in één ruk uitgelezen!!......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on December 05, 2018

The book I was reading for the realistic non fiction was Nory Ryan's Song. This book connects to A Long Walk To Water in many differnet ways. In Nory Ryan's song, it mostly talked about how little water their land had. It talked about lost families, about the protagonist, Nory, who had to leave her......more

Goodreads review by Amalia on July 18, 2010

I stayed up all night crying with this one. Giff is an award winning author who gives us a strong, complex heroine to love and cheer. Nory is a 12 year old girl living in Ireland at the time of the potato famine. Like most 12 year olds, she is a mix of innocence and maturity; she is full of the opti......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 11, 2013

Seriously, have you ever been truly hungry? I thought I was hungry, the one day I had to fast before surgery. Reading This YA book will make you see the potato famine in Ireland, through the eyes of young Nory Ryan. You will realize how cozy we live, compared to our Irish ancestors, many who starved......more

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Reviewed in Bookselling Kids' Pick of the Lists Part Two for October 2000.

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