Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)

Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)

ISBN: 0862782066

ISBN 13: 9780862782061

Pages: 153

Format: Paperback

Authors: Marita Conlon-McKenna, Donald Teskey

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It is the late 1840s 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 twelve-year-old Eily, the children use all their strength and ingenuity to survive and find their way to Castletaggart.