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Gr 4-8 Eleven-year-old Andy Flynn is saved by the Little People from the flood that kills his mother and stepfather in Vancouver. His mother's sister takes him to her home in Halifax, confiding to him on the way that the father he grew up believing to be dead is alive and also lives in the same town. Andy runs away to find him and moves into his seedy boardinghouse room. Vinny Flynn sells illegal cigarettes, and is a neglectful if affectionate parent, largely leaving Andy to take care of his own n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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...Log In or Sign Up to Read More