Bog Child

DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him--his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what--a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.

Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 06/08/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375841354

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 124688 / Bog Child

About the Author
Siobhan Dowd's novels include A Swift Pure Cry, for which she was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start author, The London Eye Mystery, and Bog Child. She passed away in August of 2007 from breast cancer.