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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
At Christmastime, six-year-old Angela takes the baby Jesus from the cold church manger to her warm house in Limerick, Ireland. Based on a childhood story told by the author's mother.
A little girl, Angela takes the baby Jesus home from the church's nativity scene because she thinks he is cold like herself.
2) The Banshee
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
4) Brilliant
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Black Dog of depression has descended over Dublin, but siblings Rayzer and Gloria are determined to stop it, and soon they are joined by thousands of other children and some magical animals on a chase through the streets, parks, and beaches of Dublin.
5) Fiona's luck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
Author
Series
Ministry of SUITs volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jack Pease and his partner, Trudy, operatives of the Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things, investigate odd things happening at Belfast's aquarium.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 15
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
10) King Puck
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With the help of fairies, Seamus the farmer and his scrawny goat win top honors at a festival in Killorglin, Ireland, and receive a lifetime supply of books.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash and discovers she cannot remember anything, she runs off with a stranger to avoid dealing with a father she does not recognize and the press coverage of the crash.
13) The wish list
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young girl named Meg Finn finds herself in trouble with the law but an accidential explosion sends Meg's spirit in limbo between good and evil.
Author
Series
Ronan Boyle volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.
18) The call
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the last twenty-five years every teenager in Ireland has been subject to "the call" which takes them away to the land of the Sídhe, where they are hunted for twenty four hours (though only three minutes pass in this world)--handicapped by her twisted legs, Nessa Doherty knows that very few return alive, but she is determined to be one of them.
19) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Author
Series
Ronan Boyle volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on an official mission to rescue his captain, fifteen-year-old Ronan Boyle, detective in the Garda Special Unit that polices the wee folk, also pursues a personal vendetta to capture the Bog Man and prove his parents' innocence.
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