One Belfast Boy

By Patricia McMahon

Book Overview

Eleven-year-old Liam Leathem lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland.He happens to be Catholic, but his story might be the same no matter what his religion.He has never known a Protestant person in all his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395686202
• ISBN13: 9780395686201
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Book

One Belfast Boy begins with An Old Story, a very brief history of Northern Ireland. It then continues with A New Story, which is about young Liam's life in Belfast. The text follows Liam through several of his days at home, in the neighborhood, at school, and with the boxing club. The photos which illustrate this book tell their own story, sometimes illuminating an event such as the pre-school soccer game; sometimes chilling the reader with a terrifying contrast: boys leaving school / soldier watching through his gunsight. Touching, moving, excellent book which gives new meaning to that sometimes hackneyed term, "cross-cultural."