A SLIP OF A GIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 06430019C00046
English Summary/英文概要： A heart-wrenching novel in verse about a poor girl surviving the Irish Land Wars, by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author.
For Anna, the family farm has always been home... But now, things are changing.
Anna’s mother has died, and her older siblings have emigrated, leaving Anna and her father to care for a young sister with special needs. And though their family has worked this land for years, they’re in danger of losing it as poor crop yields leave them without money to pay their rent.
When a violent encounter with the Lord’s rent collector results in Anna and her father’s arrest, all seems lost. But Anna sees her chance and bolts from the jailhouse. On the run, Anna must rely on her own inner strength to protect her sister--and try to find a way to save her family.
Written in verse, A Slip of a Girl is a poignant story of adversity, resilience, and self-determination by a master of historical fiction, painting a haunting history of the tensions in the Irish countryside of the early 1890s, and the aftermath of the Great Famine.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 安娜的媽媽過世了，而她的兄弟姊妹也離開家了，只剩下她的父親和生病的妹妹和安娜相依為命。雖然他們的家庭已經在這片土地上耕作多年，但由於農作欠收，他們沒有錢支付租金給地主，而面臨隨時會失去家園的風險。當地主來收租時，一場暴力的衝突使得安娜和她的父親被捕入獄，正當一切顯得絕望時，安娜卻在監獄裡發現了鬆脫的螺栓，抓緊機會逃亡的安娜，必須依靠自己的內在力量來保護她的妹妹，並試圖回去拯救她的家人。
本書來自曾兩度獲得紐伯瑞金牌獎的作者Patricia Giff Reilly，是一本「詩體小說」，全書以敘事詩的形式寫成。背景設定在1890年代，英國統治下的愛爾蘭，涉及早期愛爾蘭動亂的歷史，及歷史上惡名昭彰的愛爾蘭大饑荒，描述在此艱辛的困境下，一個少女如何與勢力龐大的地主對抗，保護自己的家人，是一個關於韌性、克服困難以及決心的感人成長故事。
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Awards/获奖情况：★本書作者曾兩度獲得紐伯瑞金牌獎，並曾獲得波士頓環球報號角書獎
★柯克斯書評星級推薦
★出版人週刊推薦
"Giff has the rare gift of using few words—but exactly the right ones—to evoke strong and varied images and feelings." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Profoundly moving." - Publishers Weekly
A heart-wrenching novel in verse about a poor girl surviving the Irish Land Wars, by a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author.
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About the Author/作者介绍： Patricia Reilly Giff是許多備受好評的童書的作者，包括紐伯瑞金牌獎兼波士頓環球報號角書獎得獎小說Lily’s Crossing，以及紐伯瑞金牌獎得獎小說Pictures of Hollis Woods。她的其他童書作品包括暢銷書Kids of the Polk Street School系列以及Hunter Moran系列。她住在美國康涅狄格州。
Patricia Reilly Giff is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Lily’s Crossing, a Newbery Honor Book and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and Pictures of Hollis Woods, a Newbery Honor Book. Her works for younger readers include the best-selling Kids of the Polk Street School series and the Hunter Moran books. She lives in Connecticut.
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