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Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine #1) - Marita Conlon-McKenna January 1, 1990 PDF  BOOKS
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Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine #1)
Author: Marita Conlon-McKenna
Year: January 1, 1990
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.9 MB
Language: English

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.

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