John Quinn --- Poolbeg - the Irish for Bestsellers!

By the author of The Summer of Lily & Esme, winner of The Children’s Book of the Year Award.

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Duck & Swanjquinn3	€6.50	€6.50
When Martin ‘Duck’ Oduki, abandoned in Dublin by a Nigerian father and Irish mother, runs away from St Mark’s Care Centre, Emer Healy discovers him hiding on a school bus bound for Galway. Watching her sick mother’s struggle to regain her health, Emer is also running from the pain and confusion she feels inside. It isn’t long before the two children discover they need each other. Duck finds other unusual allies in Granny Flynn, who knows a thing or two about institutional life, and her husband, blind Tom, who introduces Duck to the game of hurling. Duck and Swan is a moving and often funny story of friendship and acceptance set against a background of intolerance and high adventure in a quiet part of County Galway. Large View
The Summer of Lily & Esmejquinn2	€6.50	€6.50
What a summer it is for Alan! He wasn't much looking forward to living in the country, not after spending all of his life in Dublin. And when he finds that his next-door neighbours are two very old ladies, he is not much happier. Then he find a mysterious locked room in his house and hears about the ghost of a boy called Albert who died tragically. When Lily and Esme, the two old ladies, start calling him Albert, he begins to get worried but is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of his new friend, Lisa, and some friendly grown-ups, he unearths the story of another seventy years before and is at last able to give his new friends their dearest wish. The Summer of Lily and Esme is both moving and funny.

Duck & Swanjquinn3

€6.50

When Martin ‘Duck’ Oduki, abandoned in Dublin by a Nigerian father and Irish mother, runs away from St Mark’s Care Centre, Emer Healy discovers him hiding on a school bus bound for Galway. Watching her sick mother’s struggle to regain her health, Emer is also running from the pain and confusion she feels inside. It isn’t long before the two children discover they need each other. Duck finds other unusual allies in Granny Flynn, who knows a thing or two about institutional life, and her husband, blind Tom, who introduces Duck to the game of hurling. Duck and Swan is a moving and often funny story of friendship and acceptance set against a background of intolerance and high adventure in a quiet part of County Galway.

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The Summer of Lily & Esmejquinn2

€6.50

What a summer it is for Alan! He wasn't much looking forward to living in the country, not after spending all of his life in Dublin. And when he finds that his next-door neighbours are two very old ladies, he is not much happier. Then he find a mysterious locked room in his house and hears about the ghost of a boy called Albert who died tragically. When Lily and Esme, the two old ladies, start calling him Albert, he begins to get worried but is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of his new friend, Lisa, and some friendly grown-ups, he unearths the story of another seventy years before and is at last able to give his new friends their dearest wish. The Summer of Lily and Esme is both moving and funny.

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Duck and Swan

Reviewed by Leah from Galway

The author came to our school and was very nice he told us the story of how the idea of duck and swan came to him. I was intrested in reading the book and thought it was brilliant.

June 2008

This review applies to the Duck & Swan version.

John Quinn --- Poolbeg - the Irish for Bestsellers!

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