The Resource The carnival at Bray, a novel by Jessie Ann Foley
The carnival at Bray, a novel by Jessie Ann Foley
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The item The carnival at Bray, a novel by Jessie Ann Foley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Westfield Washington Public Library.
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- Summary
- It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on 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 first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life-altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all-- live
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 254 pages
- Note
- Includes afterword and a reader's guide
- Isbn
- 9781480678293
- Label
- The carnival at Bray
- Title
- The carnival at Bray
- Statement of responsibility
- a novel by Jessie Ann Foley
- Subject
-
- Bildungsromans
- trueAmericans in Ireland
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- trueQuests
- trueGeneration X
- Dublin (Ireland) -- Juvenile fiction
- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueUncle and niece
- trueFans (Persons)
- trueTeenage romance
- trueGrunge music
- Ireland -- Juvenile fiction
- trueCulture conflict
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueIreland
- trueLife change events
- trueAdolescence
- trueTeenage girls
- trueFamilies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on 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 first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life-altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all-- live
- Summary
- Uprooted from Chicago to rural Ireland, Maggie searches for her place in the country she now calls home before enduring a tragedy that sends her on a pilgrimmage to fulfill her uncle's request
- Award
-
- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2015.
- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults: Top Ten, 2015.
- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2017.
- Awards note
- Winner of the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize ; Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2015.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10381240
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.6
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 1030
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PZ7.F67634
- LC item number
- Ca 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1030
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 9
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- The carnival at Bray, a novel by Jessie Ann Foley
- Note
- Includes afterword and a reader's guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21053471
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9781480678293
- Isbn Type
- (Paw Prints)
- Lccn
- 2014937608
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 9781480678293
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn883649915
- (OCoLC)883649915
- Label
- The carnival at Bray, a novel by Jessie Ann Foley
- Note
- Includes afterword and a reader's guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21053471
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 254 pages
- Isbn
- 9781480678293
- Isbn Type
- (Paw Prints)
- Lccn
- 2014937608
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 9781480678293
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn883649915
- (OCoLC)883649915
Subject
- true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
- trueAdolescence
- trueAmericans in Ireland
- Bildungsromans
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueCulture conflict
- Dublin (Ireland) -- Juvenile fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFans (Persons)
- trueGeneration X
- trueGrunge music
- trueIreland
- Ireland -- Juvenile fiction
- trueLife change events
- trueQuests
- trueTeenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- trueTeenage romance
- trueUncle and niece
Genre
Included in
- trueYALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults: 2015
- trueYALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: Living Overseas: Stranger in a Strange Land (2017)
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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