Nory Ryan's Song

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Summary: Nory Ryan's Song
Review: Nory Ryan is just twelve years old, living in Maidin Bay, Ireland in 1845. An English lord collects rent from the small village of long-time potato farmers. Nory's sister just married and sails away to America. Her father is still out to sea fishing. One morning, Nory awakes to a smell in the air and wonders where the stench could be coming from.

It was the poatoes. They were black and oozing with disease. Now the family has no resources to pay the rent nor any food to eat. Nory is left by her other sister and grandfather who go to look for her father. Nory is left with the responsibility of raising her three-year-old brother. With the potatoes rotting, there would be no crops or income. The lord's men would take all of the food and livestock as payment for the rent, leaving the village people with nothing. Nory soon finds a friendship in a very unexpected person, the healing woman, Anna. She is elderly and she begins to teach Nory her art of healing. All of the food is gone and Nory is the only one left healthy enough to get out of bed, although she is still starving. Soon, Nory must take on finding food for her baby brother and her elderly friend, Anna. She risks her life to hang over cliff edges and gather bird eggs.

Nory is a strong, resourceful young girl who goes to great lengths to provide for those she holds dear to her heart. She is independant and strong and she does not waiver to get justice for her loved ones. She makes a deal with the English lord so that Anna can have her dog back. The theme of this book is strong family bonds help spiritual and physical survival. And Nory finds strength in the people she loves.

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Summary: Exciting book!
Review: Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff is a great book about a brave girl and her family trying to survive during the Irish Potato Famine. It is very exciting and I would recommend it for ages 10-12. You really get into the story, and it is as if you are there, witnessing everything. Happy reading!

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Summary: A Breath-taker
Review: Nory Ryan's Song is a excellent book for people of all ages. If you want to learn about immagration & the Irish Potato Famine, this is also a book for you. This book has many gloomy and depressing momonts, but also many joyous ones. Every chapter is more breath-taking than the last. The author really captured my imagination in Nory Ryan's Song, and I can't wait to read the sequel, Maggie's Door. It was enjoyable, every step of the way!!!

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Summary: Nory Ryans Song
Review: Nory Ryan's Song is a great book about a girl and her family who live in Ireland. Their potatoes go bad and they nearly starve to death, so the family must go to America. One character is very funny--Patch, Nory's little brother, who collects rocks. My favorite part is when Nory gets the tickets to go to America. It is a great book for kids and adults. There are sad parts and good parts. I think the book is great.

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Summary: Joey Cronin's Opinion For Mrs. Sanchez's Class
Review: Nory Ryan's Song is a great book! It is a true and sad story and filled me with excitement. I think it is a good way to learn what really happened during the Irish potatoe famine. The people really went through difficult times. We are lucky today that we have more food and money than the poor potatoe farmers during the famine. I think all kids should read this book when they get the chance.

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Summary: Amazing Book. A real page-turner.
Review: Nory Ryan's Song is a great page turning book. Light reading, but an amazing plot. The book is about a girl named Nory Ryan who lives in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine. I enjoyed wondering what was going to happen next. This was a great book, I cannot wait to read the sequel.

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Summary: Powerful!
Review: Nory Ryan's Song portrays the near hopelessness faced by those who suffered through the potato blight of the mid-1800s in Ireland. Starvation and desperation are vividly described through the perspective of twelve-year-old Nory as she struggles to survive and provide for her loved ones. The music within her allows her to connect with a woman whom she initially fears, but who is able to provide Nory with sustenance and ultimately with a gift of knowledge that will allow her to heal others. The author's use of language is notable: Giff creates an "Irish lilt" in her text that provides a strong sense of place and authenticity to this powerful and moving story.

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Summary: Nory's Review
Review: Nory Ryan's Song was a pretty good book. It tells about the potato blight in Ireland.
It's about a family that lives in Ireland while the English ruled. One of the family members goes to America. After she left, all the potatoes turned black and everybody went without food. Then the rent for there house was due earlier than usual, so the family had to pay the rent with their animals.
It gets really exciting toward the middle. It tells how they survived without food. It also has a very happy ending. I strongly suggest you read it.

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Summary: [My]... Review
Review: Nory Ryan's Song was an inspiration to me. It was a historical novel about the Irish Potato Famine, which is the lack of potatoes caused by little black spores. It was based on the life of a girl named Nory and how her oldest sister Maggie married and moved to America right before the famine. Her older sister Celia, her best friend Sean, her little brother Patcheens, her father and her grandda had plans to go to America someday.
While Celia and grandda went to Balelee to search for her father who had been out to sea trying to pay the rent with fish, Nory and Patcheens stayed with Anna Doonley, an old Irish peasant. While her and Patch were at Anna Doonley's, they had to learn to make medicines out of herbs and how to use food wisely.
Read on and join Nory and her quest to America.

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Summary: Austin's review
Review: Nory Ryan's Song

Nory Ryan's Song is a book about how some families survived with little food and no money. These people still have to pay rent for their homes. If they did not pay rent then they were sent away and their homes were destroyed. In that part of the city no one even had a coin but Anna Donnely. One of the families named the Ryan's had two daughters and a boy. The oldest girl got married in her mother's wedding dress and after the wedding she went to America. The father of the Ryan's was fishing to get money to pay rent. Because he was gone this left Patch and Nory by themselves. Nory and Patch had a very hard life. They had to find food for a long time. Sean Red, a friend of Nory's, had an extra ticket to go to America because his grandmother died. He gave the ticket to Patch and Patch left for America. Later when the Ryan's father finally came home, he brought a ticket for Nory to go to America as well. So Patch and Nory got to live in America and have a better life.