The Carnival at Bray
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Chicago Weekly Best Books of 2014
A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner
Winner, 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014
Finalist, William C. Morris Award
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all, live.
The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.
Editor's Note
Smells like teen spirit...
This award-winning debut novel beautifully captures the longing & loss that comes with leaving everything you love behind. Set to the soundtrack of early ’90s grunge, it appeals to the dormant teen spirit in adults, too.
Jessie Ann Foley
Jessie Ann Foley is the Printz Honor–winning author of the YA novels The Carnival at Bray, Neighborhood Girls, Sorry for Your Loss, and You Know I’m No Good. For middle graders, she has written Breda's Island and the forthcoming Severe and Unusual Weather. Her work has been named to best-of lists by Kirkus Reviews, ALA Booklist, YALSA, Entertainment Weekly, and many other outlets and has been featured on school and library recommended reading lists all across the United States. Jessie lives with her family in Chicago, where she was born and raised. You can visit her online at jessieannfoley.com.
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Reviews for The Carnival at Bray
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful book, loved the Ireland setting!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I picked this up as soon as I could after I read the description after I learned it had won a Printz honor. If someone was hypothetically creating a book to be in my wheelhouse, this was the one. Although good, I'm not sure I would have given it such an honor. A love letter to the 90s, a coming-of-age tale, a romance- with a little secret international travel thrown in.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An impressive debut novel, honest, real, and well-written.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I felt a sad happiness when I finished this book, which really is how so much of life can be.