Bridie's FireBridie's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean. Bridie's Fire is heart-warming story of courage and resilience. It affirms Kirsty Murray's keen understanding of the human spirit. Starting in the 1840s and ending in present-day Australia. The Children of the Wind quartet tells the stories of four courageous young people, Bridie, Billy, Colm and Maeve, born fifty years apart. The central character from each book becomes a mentor to the child in the next. A well crafted and finely tuned historical novel...a rollicking adventure. - Children's Book Council, Notable Books 2004 I loved it! Really, I couldn't put it down. It's such an inspiration . . . my favourite book in the world. - Georgia, Year 8 |
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Bridie's Fire
Revisió d'Usuari - Thorpe-Bowker and Contributors - Books+PublishingHistorical novels for younger readers are going through a boom. In the first of four connected novels, Murray takes readers from the devastating Irish potato famine to the Ballarat gold rush. This ... Llegeix la ressenya completa
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Revisió d'Usuari - Grace - GoodreadsI loved this book! There was a bit too much death in it for my liking, but other than that, it was a very enjoyable book to read! Llegeix la ressenya completa
Continguts
| 1 | |
| 9 | |
| 18 | |
| 24 | |
Fever and changelings | 32 |
Road into darkness | 36 |
The deathhouse | 42 |
Black dogs and broken houses | 48 |
The fate of girls | 123 |
Sea change | 130 |
Hearts of fire | 137 |
Ember prayer | 149 |
Gold dust | 154 |
Billy Dare | 162 |
Leap of faith | 169 |
Midnight | 176 |
Pilgrim souls | 54 |
Riot | 60 |
Angel go before me | 64 |
Land of forever young | 70 |
The voyage south | 76 |
Winds of freedom | 84 |
The New World | 90 |
Beaumanoir | 96 |
Gilbert Clarence Arthur Bloomfield De Quincey | 101 |
By the waters and the wild | 109 |
Silken threads and golden needles | 117 |
The choice | 183 |
Alone | 189 |
The night fossicker | 196 |
Eddie Bones | 204 |
Songbird of the South | 209 |
A troupe of stars | 220 |
Broken promises | 228 |
The living and the dead | 234 |
Starry starry night | 246 |
Authors note | 251 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
afternoon Amaranta Arbuckle arms asked beside Biddy body Brandon Bridie Bridie felt Bridie's brother Caitlin called camp close clothes cross crowd dark don't door Dora dress Eddie Eddie Bones everything eyes face father feel fire folded followed Gilbert girls gold goldfields hair hand hard head heard heart hope inside Ireland It's Jacobus keep kitchen knew laughed leaned leave listening live looked loved Miss Charity morning mother moved never night O'Connor past pulled pushed quickly reached road seemed she'd shouted side sitting skin smiled someone sound stood stop story Suddenly sure tell tent there's things thought took tried turned voice waiting walked watched wind woman workhouse
Passatges populars
Pàgina 68 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions : for my name is in him.
Pàgina 141 - There are more ways of killing a dog than by choking him with butter.
Pàgina 142 - Gilbert put his elbows on the table and rested his face in his hands.
Pàgina 197 - She was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she didn't notice the red eyes watching her.
Pàgina 151 - I save this fire, as noble Christ saves; Mary on the top of the house and Brigid in its center; The eight strongest angels in Heaven Preserving this house and keeping its people safe.
Pàgina 13 - When you were born, just a fresh babe, and I held you in my arms for the first time, I knew that we had to call you Bridie, after the blessed St Brigid.
Pàgina 191 - She wanted to fly at him and scratch his eyes out, but she...
Pàgina 55 - Grabbing each of the children by the wrist, he pushed his way through the crowd to the front of the gate.
Pàgina 12 - She wiped a tear away from her cheek with the back of her hand. Dad knelt down and swept her up into his arms, bringing her face close to his. 'Husha, what's this you're saying?
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Bridie's Fire Volum 1 de CHILDREN OF THE WIND Premier's reading challenge 7-9 |
| Autor | Kirsty Murray |
| Editor | Allen & Unwin, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1865087270, 9781865087276 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 264 pàgines |
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