The carnival at Bray

ISBN: 9780989515566
ISBN: 0989515567
ISBN: 9780989515542
ISBN: 0989515540
ISBN: 9780989515597
ISBN: 0989515591
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (265 p.)
Publisher: Ashford, Connecticut : Elephant Rock Productions, Inc., 2014.

Summary: Winner of the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize It''s 1993, and the Teen Spirit Generation pulses to the hum of the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is plucked from her blue-collar Chicago neighborhood to a small town on the Irish Sea. Surviving off care-packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she''ll ever find her place in this new world. When tragedy and first love simultaneously strike, Maggie embarks upon a forbidden quest to fulfill a dying wish. Her pilgrimage takes her from the coastal town of Bray to a dodgy youth hostel in Dubl