The Grave

By Heneghan, James

Publishers Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.

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ISBN
978-0-37432-765-1
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2000.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on November 1, 2000

Gr 7-10 Tom Mullen, nearly 14, has spent his life shuttling from one "fozzy" (foster home) to another after being abandoned as a baby. At his latest school, a construction project arouses his curiosity and he and his fellow foster kid, a developmentally slow boy named Brian, investigate the site. Skirting the security guard, Tom falls into a mass grave and out of 1974 Liverpool. He hits the ground in Ireland in 1847 just in time to perform CPR on a drowned, slightly older boy who could otherwise be his double. Tom stays with the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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