Crossing Into Brooklyn

Author: Mary Ann Mcguigan
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Category: Children's General Story Books, Family
Age Group: 10-14
Book Format: Paperback

To Find Your Future, You Have to Face Your Past
She knows what her parents told her. Now she wants the truth.
At sixteen, Morgan Lindstrum has the life that every other girl wants--at least from the outside. A privileged only child, she has everything she could ever want, except her parents' attention. A Princeton physicist and a high-powered executive, they barely have any time for each other, much less for Morgan.
Then her beloved grandfather dies, depriving Morgan of the only stable figure in her life. If that's not enough, she suddenly finds out he was never her grandfather at all. To find out the truth about her family, Morgan makes her way to Brooklyn, where she meets Terence Mulvaney, the Irish immigrant father who her mother disowned. Morgan wants answers; but instead of just satisfying her curiosity, Mulvaney shows her the people in his condemned tenement building, who are suffering and have nowhere to go.
He challenges her to help them, by tearing away the veil of shame, and showing her wealthy parents and her advantaged circle of friends a world they don't want to know exists. The temptation to walk away from this ugly reality, as her mother did, is strong. But if she does, can Morgan ever really leave behind what she learned when she crossed into Brooklyn?

About Mary Ann McGuigan
Author of three previous YA books, one a finalist for the National Book Award, Mary Ann McGuigan was an editor for many years, and also has experience teaching. Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals and newspapers.

(BK-9781440584633)

SKU BK-9781440584633
Barcode # 9781440584633
Brand Adams Media Corporation
Artist / Author Mary Ann Mcguigan
Shipping Weight 0.4300kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 21.800m
Assembled Height 2.000m
Assembled Width 14.500m
Type Paperback

Be The First To Review This Product!

Help other Augoods users shop smarter by writing reviews for products you have purchased.

Write a product review

More From This Category