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It really is perilous to be always a Catholic in the Ireland of 1735, and it's really almost more than can be borne for 15-year-old Padraic Fitzbrian. Nearly a century before, Lord Protector Cromwell of England had deposit the Irish rebellion confiscating lands, eradicating priests, outlawing the Mass, and prohibiting education of any sort for Irish Catholics. Padraic and his two friends, Liam and Rose, are in their this past year as scholars in the forbidden and risky all-weathers classroom under the hedgerow. Fiery Padraic, whose family lands had been seized so long before, chafes under the injustice as if it were yesterday, making trouble for himself and the ones around him. Liam, as identified a patriot, supports the hope of being able to combat for his people's freedom in an entirely different way. And warm-hearted Rose, gifted with pluck, is also luckily rich in common sense. Behind the views, a mysterious body called Kestrel stirs the fires of Irish personal information, and Padraic longs to do the maximum amount of. Harmless adventures install into dangerous trouble as the three young people strive, in each new difficulty, to take hold of the trust and fortitude that brings freedom amidst the most detrimental tyranny. Gloria Whelan is a Country wide Book Award champion for Young People's Books and writer of many books, including The Miracle of St. Nicholas.
