Books with author Rosalie K. Fry

Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles, living on the Scottish mainland. City life doesn’t suit Fiona and at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns more about her mother’s strange ways with the seals and seabirds; hears stories of the selkies, mythological creatures that are half seal and half human; and wonders about her baby brother, Jamie, who disappeared long ago but whom fishermen claim to have seen. Fiona is determined to find Jamie and enlists her cousin Rory to help. When her grandparents are suddenly threatened with eviction, Fiona and Rory go into action. Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry is a magical story of the power of place and family history, interwoven with Scottish folklore. Rosalie K. Fry’s novel, which was the basis for John Sayles’s classic 1994 film The Secret of Roan Inish, is back in print for the first time in decades.

Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles, living on the Scottish mainland. City life doesn’t suit Fiona and at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns more about her mother’s strange ways with the seals and seabirds; hears stories of the selkies, mythological creatures that are half seal and half human; and wonders about her baby brother, Jamie, who disappeared long ago but whom fishermen claim to have seen. Fiona is determined to find Jamie and enlists her cousin Rory to help. When her grandparents are suddenly threatened with eviction, Fiona and Rory go into action. Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry is a magical story of the power of place and family history, interwoven with Scottish folklore. Rosalie K. Fry’s novel, which was the basis for John Sayles’s classic 1994 film The Secret of Roan Inish, is back in print for the first time in decades.

The Morgans are a happy, more-or-less carefree family, who live in a small town in Wales. All the Morgans are musical - all, that is, except pert Bronnie Morgan, who is convinced that she has not inherited the family talent for music. But Bronnie is just as anxious as the other Morgans that her father write the winning song for the town song contest. The first prize is a piano, and the Morgans want to own the instrument that would add so much to the family song fests.Bronnie and her brothers, David and Gareth, are soon involved in another enterprise - keeping some of David's classmates from stealing the eggs from the nest of a kite, a bird rarely seen in that part of Wales. With the aid of their beloved grandfather, Bronnie manages to foil the would-be thieves, and she has the honor of being the only girl to be invited to be a member of David's bird watching club, the Siskin Society.Then, on the suspenseful night of the song contest, Bronnie, the Silent Nightingale of the Morgan family, plays an important and unexpected part in the contest. Here is an imaginative story that will delight young readers. It has everything they could ask for: a pleasant country setting in which children can wander at will; a cheerful, loving family; a modern fairy godmother (in tweeds); and a wonderful grandfather who whittles interesting objects as presents. Miss Fry has drawn the perfect illustrations for her fresh, happy story.