A Girl Called Blue

by Marita Conlon-McKenna

  Winner Bisto Book of the Year Award

  Two Jewish children are sent from Nazi-occupied Austria to Millisle, a refugee farm in Northern Ireland. The war has changed everything forever, and no one can tell them what their future holds. Will they ever see their families again?

  Based on the true story of Millisle refugee farm in Ards, County Down.

  WAR CHILDREN

  Gerard Whelan

  Winner Bisto Merit Award; Reading Association of Ireland’s Children’s Book of the Year Award

  Six stories – one set in Dublin, the others in the countryside – about children who get caught up in the happenings of the War of Independence. A powerful collection of stories that linger in the mind long after the book is finished.

  KATIE’S WAR

  Aubrey Flegg

  Winner Peter Pan Award (IBBY Sweden)

  When Katie’s father returns from the Great War, he is shell-shocked, his personality destroyed. Four years later he has more or less recovered, but now Ireland is on the brink of civil war. There are divided loyalties in Katie’s family, and she isn’t sure which side to believe. Who is right?