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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

Another book by Dowd (she wrote The London-Eye Mystery) about an Irish boy in the 1970s, when Ireland was going through the Troubles and Irish prisoners were going on a hunger strike. Fergus is digging for peat when he discovers the body of what looks like a young girl. She turns out to be a mummy from several hundred years before. Dowd weaves her story with Fergus' as they both struggle with family problems, growing relationships, and doing what's right for the sake of the many -- and of the one. Dowd is a wonderful writer, Fergus a great character, and kids will learn something about what was happening in Ireland just 30 years ago.
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