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Gr 7 Up—Ireland, 1921. Fifteen-year-old Polly is struggling with the aftermath of one war and the beginning of another. Her older brother, Leo, returned from the Great War with PTSD, alternately loving and violent. Her rural village is split in two—by the map and by rising tensions—due to the newly established border between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Catholic Republic of Ireland. She faces a bleak future of domestic servitude, limited to caring for Leo and their father. After an argument with Leo leaves her beat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More