The Book Report, March 1st, 2001
Heneghan, James The Grave 2000. 245pp. $17 hc. Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 0-374-32765-3. Grades 7-9
Thirteen-year-old Liverpool native Tom Mullen, who has lived most of his unhappy life in a series of foster homes, finds himself mysteriously drawn to a large pit being dug next to his school. The pit, surrounded by high fences, is rumored to be a mass gravesite. On a nocturnal exploration trip, Tom falls or is pulled into the pit and wakes to find himself in 1847 Ireland in the middle of the great potato famine. The Monaghan family takes him in to share what little they h...
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