A Greyhound of a Girl

PUBLISHER'S NOTE
: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Doyle, Roddy, 1958–
A greyhound of a girl / Roddy Doyle.
p. cm.
Summary: “Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky twelve-year-old Dublin
schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But
Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in
Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an
unlikely adventure” — Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4197-0168-9 (hardback)
[1. Grandmothers—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.
3. Death—Fiction. 4. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 5. Ghosts—Fiction.
6. Dublin (Ireland)—Fiction. 7. Ireland—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D7773Gre 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011042200

ISBN: 978-1-4197-0168-9

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Text copyright © 2011 Roddy Doyle
Illustrations copyright © 2012 Karl Kwasny
Map copyright © 2011 Julene Harrison

Book design by Chad W. Beckerman

First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Marion Lloyd Books, an imprint of Scholastic Children's Books.

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