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Ann Carroll,
author of Rosie's War
Ann Carroll is married, with two children, and lives in Dublin. For many years she was a teacher of English in Killnarden Community School but has recently given up teaching to become a full-time writer.
She is the author of four other books in the Rosie series, and has also written Amazing Grace and Laura Delaney’s Deadliest Day.
Books
Rosie's War
ISBN: 1-84423-073-5
Feisty Rosie McGrath is off on another exciting historical adventure!
Time-traveller Rosie finds an old newspaper dated 1943 and spots a report on the arrest of one Edward O’Neill for murder. She is horrified; this is the Edward she met on her trip to 1900, son of her great-great uncle Joseph. She travels back to 1943, where Ireland is in a state of emergency as the Second World War rages in Britain and Europe. Rosie has survived harsh conditions before. The important thing is: can she save Edward?
Rosie’s War is the fifth book in the bestselling “Rosie” series by Ann Carroll. As usual, Ann manages to combine great storytelling with educational historical information making Rosie’s War a must for readers aged 8+
Rosie’s Last Adventure
by Ann Carroll
Dublin schoolgirl Rosie McGrath may be only thirteen and a half, but she has seen more of life than either her parents or teachers realise.
When her art teacher Ms Henry discovers a painting in the National Gallery with an uncanny resemblance to the teenager and shows it to her, she inadvertently sends Rosie off on her last adventure – into 1963 to find the painting’s artist Jennie O’Neill.
Suddenly Rosie is thrust into the world of St Catherine’s boarding school in Eccles Street where Mother Misericordia rules with an iron will, girls have to recite 30 verse poems and shoes are pointy and uncomfortable. Where’s the freedom and cool music her mother’s always talking about? Rosie thinks the 60s are seriously sad.
And Rosie has a battle on her hands – to stop the evil Stacia Borgia’s plot to get Jennie expelled, find something that’s been missing for 10 years and introduce the other teenage girls to modern day essentials – boys and parties – all before she returns to the present day. Will history be rewritten?
Can Rosie outwit those who wish to do Jennie harm? She’ll certainly need to keep her wits about her.
