Title: The gift of the pirate queen
First published: 1982
Description: Sixth-grader Grace, her mother dead and her only sister ill with diabetes, learns to be brave like the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, whom her Irish cousin says she resembles.
Subjects: Death, Diabetes, Diabetes in children, Fiction, Irish Americans, Juvenile fiction
LC classification: PZ7.G3626 Gg 1982