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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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"A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text provide a history of Irish-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century potato famine when millions immigrated to America, and includes essays by some of America's foremost Irish-American writers, historians, and personalities.
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Language
English
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"One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine, the decades of ethnic prejudice and nativist discrimination, the rise of Irish political power, and on to the historic moment when John F. Kennedy was elected to this highest office in the land.
9) The view from Shanty Pond: an Irish immigrant's look at life in a New England mill town, 1875-1938
Author
Publisher
Shanty Pond Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Presents alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about significant individuals in the history of the Irish in America; and includes essays about the Irish in each of the fifty states, as well as discussions on a variety of events and topics.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2000, ©1999
Language
English
Description
Old Thomas Mann gets a second crack at fatherhood when a baby boy is delivered to his doorstep. A note identifies the boy as the illegitimate child of Mann's son, Eddie, a soldier killed in Vietnam. The novel is narrated by the boy.
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