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Bisto Book of the Year Merit Award (1994)

Celtic (children)
Children's fiction
Historical Fiction

Book Details:

Price: €6.95
Binding: pb
Pages: 160
Size: 196x130 mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-338-0
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-338-9

Rights held: World, all languages.

The Chieftain's Daughter

by Sam McBratney

Green Flag: For readers aged 12+. Young adult fiction

New edition of the well-loved children's book by Sam McBratney. A young boy fostered with a remote Irish tribe 1500 years ago becomes involved with local feuds, with the ideas of the wandering Christian missionary, and with his beloved Frann - the Chieftain's daughter. A strong story told in simple language which brings you back to Irish tribal times.

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Praise for The Chieftain's Daughter

One of the 'Top ten Irish books from cradle to college, recommended by Celia Keenan' Sunday Business Post

'Sam McBratney brings the fifth century vividly and startlingly to life.' The School Librarian

'The characters are so real that even when you put the book down, you find yourself still living in the fifth century.' Woman's Way

'A complex and moving story' The Irish Times

' One of the best and most perceptive writers for young people' The Guardian

'Powerful ... subtly conveyed sense of time and place' Robert Dunbar

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