his own time, only to be literally kicked out of the house by his foster parents. That night Tom goes to the grave, takes Ma's and Brendan's coffins and buries them in a church graveyard. A few months later, Tom's football coach asks him why he changed his last name to Monaghan. It turns out that the coach is Tom's long-lost father. Awards Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff B.C. Book Prize for Children's Literature, 2001 Winner of Mr. Christie's Book Award Silver Seal, 2000 Nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. Nominated for the Keystone State (Pennsylvania) Reading Association Young Adult Book Award, 2001-2002 Nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2002 Nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, 2001 2000 Canadian novels 2000 children's books Canadian historical novels Canadian children's novels Children's historical novels Fiction set in 1847 Fiction set in the 1970s Novels set in Liverpool Novels set in Ireland Novels about time travel