Description
SOMETHING IN THE BLACK PIT WAS CALLING AND REACHING OUT TO ME, PULLING ME...Tom stumbles into a pit in an excavated schoolyard and finds himself mysteriously transported back to rural Ireland in the grip of the potato famine of the 1840s. A foster child with no family in his 'real' life in 1970s Liverpool, in Ireland he finds himself taken in by a generous, though desperately poor, family whose eldest son is Tom's spitting image.Tom's intriguing life develops in parallel in both settings, creating an engrossing and affecting story for readers of 11+.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
272 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 29, 2009
Publisher
Corgi Childrens
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0552561983
ISBN-13
9780552561983