num_pages: 176
description: 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.
language: English
title: Nory Ryan's Song
titlecomplete: Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)
genres: Historical, Ireland, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 4176
places: Ireland
series: Nory Ryan
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Yearling