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The Moorchild
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The Moorchild is a novel by Eloise McGraw, centering on the life of a changeling girl in Ireland and drawing heavily from Irish and European folklore about changelings, leprechauns and fairies.
Saaski is a changeling child who struggles to fit in with the humans. In a past life she was raised as Moql, a Folk child, but when the time came for testing the folk children for the ability to render themselves invisible, Moql fails miserably. As a result, her human side was found. The Folk then exchanged her for a human child. From this point on, Saaski is rejected by everybody except her foster family and her grandmother. She also struggles to reconcile the emotional insensitivity of her Folk half with her human emotions, all the while trying to be accepted by others.
Eventually, she finds a friend in a boy called Tam, takes back her foster family's real daughter from the Folk and returns the child to their rightful parents. Saaski and Tam then leave the village, taking with them the renmants of their previous lives.
It was awarded the Newbery Honor in 1997.[1]
