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A Charm of Silver

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Set in the thriving mining city of Butte, Montana, in the spring of 1889, and involving its Irish, Cousin Jack (people from Cornwall, England) and Chinese cultures, the novel underscores the tensions and cultural interactions of the period and accurately depicts mining methods and atmosphere for its underground action sequences. Molly Harrington lives with her upper-class, wid-owed, maternal grandmother, Cattie, in a fancy house in the fashionable section of Butte. Molly's mother has died and her father, a miner, has broken off all contact. Grandmother has no use for the poorer shanty Irish or any other cultures and has given Molly no information about her father. But Molly is now fifteen and her tension over Grandmother's strict control is forcing her to break from Cattie and try to find her father. By putting bits of remembered and overheard pieces of information together, she determines that her father is a Cousin Jack. Her search enables her to mix with the townspeople and learn about them as well as the mines. She cleverly follows a supply delivery to her father's mine where she discovers him stealing silver from an adjoining Cousin Jack tunnel. Even so, she begs for a reconciliation, which he rejects. Back at Grandmother's, after hearing that the Cousin Jacks have discovered the theft of their silver, Molly again sneaks into the mines to warn her father to escape with his freedom. Determined, he now commands her to stay with him until his business is done--but she flees through the tunnels. Topside, there is news of a coming battle: the Cousin Jacks have accused the Irish miners of stealing their silver. Molly feels that she must now tell what she knows to the Cousin Jack's minesuperintendent to stop an underground battle. She returns to the mines with his son to find him. It is too late. The fight is on. They are separated and Molly is on her own. For a fleeting moment she confronts her father again and their relationship is forever changed. Events occur rapidly and with a surprise twist the battle is defused.

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..".the plot's fast moving excitement will provide enjoyment for readers. Additionally, the portrayal of the conflict between the Irish and Cousin Jack populations in the American West is fascinating, and the lessons on the price of prejudice, ethnic conflict and racism make the book useful for classroom discussions."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780880921640
  • Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
  • Publisher Imprint: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 189
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0880921641
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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