Fighting words

By A. S. Acheson

Subjects: Boxing, fiction, Young adult fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Immigrants, Fiction, Children's fiction, Irish Americans, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Boxing, History, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: In nineteenth-century New York City, as Irish immigrant Myles McReary prepares to fight the mighty Giancarlo Sperio, a renegade priest gives Myles a relic that he claims will disorient Giancarlo--a relic the Catholic Church does not endorse.