The Fire Opal (30 page)

Regina McBride is the critically acclaimed author of three novels for adults:
The Marriage Bed, The Land of Women
, and
The Nature of Water and Air. The Fire Opal
is her first book for young adults. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she teaches creative writing at Hunter College in New York City, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Regina McBride

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McBride, Regina.
The fire opal / Regina McBride.—1st ed.
p.   cm.

Summary: While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own, and uses her special gifts to try to save her mother whose spirit has left her.

eISBN: 978-0-375-89544-9
[1. Supernatural—Fiction.  2. Family life—Ireland—Fiction.  3. Mythology, Celtic—Fiction.  4. Ireland—History—1558–1603—Fiction.]  I. Title.
PZ7.M478274Fir 2010
[Fic]—dc22          2009007573

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