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Article: Flood.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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182 pp. Foster/Farrar 3/02 ISBN 0-374-35057-4 16.00 (Middle School)
After his mother and stepfather are killed in a Vancouver flood, Andy Flynn is brought to Halifax by a no-nonsense aunt. Andy has always believed that his natural father is deceased; when he learns otherwise, the eleven-year-old runs away from starchy Aunt Mona to live with his ne'er-do-well dad in a squalid rooming house. What keeps this story from becoming just another problem novel are the Sheehogue--"faeries who left Ireland during the Great Famine and are now ... scattered throughout the world." Unbeknownst to Andy, the Sheehogue rescued him during the flood, accompanied him to Halifax, and ...