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Where the Stones Sing
'brings] Ireland’s past to life through well-crafted adventures for today’s pre-teens'
Evening Echo
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Bisto Book of the Year - Eilís Dillon Memorial Award (1996)
Bisto Book of the Year Merit Award (1996)
Children's fiction
Book Details:
Price:
€6.95
Binding: pb
Pages: 192
Size: 196x130 mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-424-7
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-424-9
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Rights held:
World, all languages.
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Blue Flag: For readers aged 10+
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Lockie is a bit of a misfit. Orphaned, he is placed in foster home after foster home, but somehow he never settles in. 'Troublemaker' is the general verdict.
He runs away and meets up with some colourful characters - Dadge and his strange friends Pasha and Mammy Tallon. For the first time Lockie doesn't feel like an outsider.
But others are out to wreck his happiness.
The Author Speaks
Frank Murphy answers questions about writing from young readers
Genesis of a First Novel
About Charlie Harte and his Two-Wheeled Tiger:
Frank Murphy answers questions about Charlie Harte
Teaching Resources: free to view and download
Teaching guide from O'Brien Teaching Guides Collection 2
Teaching ideas for sixth class from O'Brien Reading Programme
List of all available resources
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Praise for Lockie and Dadge
'I have been credited with inventing characters who are eccentric ... All my 'eccentrics' are people who live on the edge of society, cast in peripheral roles by conventional attitudes.
They are, however, free from the demands of any creed or political philosophy and do not have to conform to anyone else's judgement of what is proper. The difference between the way they treat Lockie and the way he is treated by those with full membership of society is that the 'beatniks' take Lockie as they find him, while the others have an evangelical zeal to make him match their own blueprint. Lockie is a free spirit and he finds soul mates in the 'eccentrics'. The author, writing in Children's Books in Ireland
'a well-written and warmhearted story ... populated with the quirky and irrepressible' Robert Dunbar, Children's Books in Ireland
'Compelling ... will apeal to anyone who likes adventure' Echo
'The satisfaction of a really enjoyable read.' Sunday Tribune
'Beguiling and engaging ... should keep young teenagers enthralled.' The Irish Times
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