Under The Hawthorne Tree (Children of the Famine)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0862782066
ISBN 13
9780862782061
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
160
Description
It is the late 1880s and the Great Famine has ravaged Ireland. The potatoes are black and rotten, and the people have nothing to eat. Eily, Michael and Peggy are alone in their cottage. Their parents went out in search of work and food, but never returned. Now the children must fend for themselves. Desperate to avoid being sent to the workhouse, they set out on a journey to find their great-aunts. On their journey they encounter the devastation caused by famine people scrabbling for food, abandoned children, soup kitchens, beggars, disease, wild dogs, death. Led by twleve year-old Eily, the children use all their strength and ingenuity to survive and find their way to Castletaggart. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
