If the Walls Could Speak
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This book is full of magic, adventure for a young boy Finn, his twin sister Neave, and I can’t forget the little brother Jack. Ailish a single mother is raising the children alone in a home in Florida. The children lost their father at Christmas time. Their Mother decided to bring them to her family home in Ireland for the summer. At first the children don’t want to go but their mother persuaded them. The children were born in Ireland but moved to the United States when they were very young, and they don’t remember much about Ireland. Their grandfather in Ireland has a magic, roaring Red sport’s convertible car with bright red leather seats. There are two live bats for a roof to the top of the car, and it has a high pitch sound coming out of it when their grandda is near. The grandda brings the boys and Neave to the city. They have a magical experience when he brings them to a coffee shop where the plates and cups fly all around. They have shocked and to be careful all at the same time. Once they get to Ireland they find there is a lot to do on the 400 acres and the manor house is so big they get to explore it. They get to meet their ancestors ghost’s, bodyguards that is a Irish wolfhound’s. Finn gets to meet his dragon for the first time. There is a festival on the grounds that they whole city and surrounding cities come to enjoy. People come to meet the great Sir Finn. He finds out that people from all around were waiting for him to come back to Ireland for many of years. At the end of the summer Finn get’s to find out if he is going to go home, back to Florida or staying in Ireland for magic school This is one of many books to come. There are new adventures every day for Finn, Neave and Jack as they learn more about their family and Wickum Manor, which has been in the family for hundreds of year.
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About the Book
It’s a beautiful, clear spring day, and soon the cherry blossoms will fall from the trees and blanket the ground like snow. This season promises to be extraordinary, but it won’t be the same without Da, who passed away at Christmastime. Finn O’Brine stares out the window, taking it all in. He can’t believe his father will never spend time with him again. And he can’t believe there’s a bat at his window—talking to him.
Before his death, Mr. O’Brine told Finn many stories about colossal dragons, sorcery, and the magic of Wickum Mannor in Ireland—but they couldn’t possibly be real, right? Wrong! Magic runs in the O’Brine family; it’s part of their heritage.
Now thirteen, Finn will begin to show signs of his magical inheritance any day now. It’s time for Finn; his twin sister, Neave; his younger brother, Jack; and his mother, Ailish, to leave the comfort of their home in America and journey to Wickum Manor themselves. They expect a summerlong adventure, but the O’Brine children may not be as ready as they think. With all the fantastic things to experience and discover on the four-hundred-acre estate, will Finn want to enroll at the magical Wickum Academy, or will he choose to return to his friends and classes in America at summer’s end?
About the Author
Deirdre M. Silvestri was born in Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick City, Ireland. Because of dyslexia, her lifelong dream of becoming an author seemed dim. However, as her children grew, Silvestri told them often that they could do anything. If the Walls Could Speak is Silvestri’s first book, the first installment of the realization of her dream.