Bog child
By: Siobhan Dowd.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Place of publication: New York, NY
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780385751698
Subjects: Political prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.; Bog bodies -- Juvenile fiction.; Family life -- Ireland -- Juvenile fiction.; Political violence -- Juvenile fiction.; Terrorism -- Juvenile fiction.; Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.