Thompson, Kate, 1956-

The new policeman / Kate Thompson. - 1st American ed. - New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, c2007. - 442 p. : music ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 442)

Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

A Junior Library Guild selection. Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 2005. Whitbread Children's Book Award, 2005.

ISBN: 0061174270 (trade bdg.) 0061174289 (lib. bdg.) : 9780061174278 (trade bdg.) 9780061174285 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 2006008246

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fairies--Fiction.
Music--Fiction.
Space and time--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ireland--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.T3715965 / N49 2007

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]