famines

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be a farmer during the Irish Potato Famine and to travel across the Atlantic Ocean onboard a ship to America.

The faeries of Knockabeg become involved in the Irish potato famine of 1845 to 1852 as they wage war on each other.

An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

The story of an infant born at sea highlights the efforts of crewpeople and passengers to secure the survival of Irish citizens fleeing from the potato famine through acts of heroism and human decency.

Examines famine throughout the world within a historical context and discusses ways of dealing with the problem.

Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during dinner, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.

Describes hunger around the world focusing on poverty, famine, corrupt governments, and raises questions about how rich nations can feed the world, and other related material.

Discusses the potato famine that devastated Ireland in the nineteenth century and led to a widespread immigration to the United States.

Based on a Lakota legend in which a mysterious woman returns the buffalo and the other animals to the Indian people.

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive.