Major, Kevin.

Ann and Seamus / Kevin Major ; art by David Blackwood. - Toronto ; Berkeley, CA : Berkeley, CA : Douglas & McIntyre ; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West, c2003. - 109 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"A Groundwood book."

School Library Journal, February 2004 Horn Book Starred, March 2004 Publisher's Weekly, March 2004 Horn Book, October 2004 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), March 2004 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2004 Kliatt, January 2004 Reading Teacher, April 2005

Relates the story of seventeen-year-old Ann Harvey and her attempt to help rescue over one hundred sixty passengers from the Irish immigrant ship "Despatch" after it ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland. Presented in poetry form.

Young Adult Follett Library Resources



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2003495019


Harvey, Ann, 1811-1860 --Poetry.


Despatch (Ship)--Poetry.


Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Poetry.
Immigrants--Poetry.
Shipwrecks--Poetry.
Rescues--Poetry.
Islands--Poetry.
American poetry.


Newfoundland and Labrador--Poetry.

PR9199.3.M3455 / A9 2003

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