Reading challenges fulfilled: #77 in my Maybe 100 This Year Challenge Title comes from: Nory Ryan was the main character and she was always singing (at least until the famine started) Anna wanted to teach Nory her plant knowledge, but Nory was too afraid to approach her until there was an emergency in the village. There was a bit of hope, though, in the relationship between Anna and Nory. How can you be sure you’ll even find him again once he’s left the village, let alone the country? Most people couldn’t read to send a letter to let you know where they were.
It was heartbreaking to read! Nory, as a tween, has to make the difficult decision to send her youngest brother with another family in the hopes he’ll get to America safely. Even though the book didn’t go into too many graphic details, you still felt the suffering as pretty much everyone in the village started to starve. Then, once the blight hit, there was literally no food. You were much better off heading to America, mainly because the English landowners were so ruthless toward their Irish tenants. The family was barely scraping by, even before the potato blight hit. Nory stays the longest, in the hopes her father will come home.įinal thoughts: This book did a great job of putting you back into the setting, which was such a hard time to live. People either starve or leave for America. The English landowner wants all the dirty Irish off his land, so he doesn’t help them. Things look survivable until the growing potatoes rot in the fields. Nory tries to save them by going to the widow Anna, who teaches her plant lore. One local family has already been thrown off the land and their house flattened. Her mother died giving birth to Patch and her father is out on a fishing boat, trying to earn enough money to pay the rent. Summary: Nory Ryan lives in Ireland with her family. This book looked like it fit the topic perfectly, and was age appropriate for all the kids.
Our first topic is immigration, initially focusing on the Irish potato famine. American History Club has restarted for the year.
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