famines

In the 1840s, as the potato famine spreads throughout Ireland, thirteen-year-old Nora finds solace in the family's large wooden cupboard where she fantasizes of cakes and other good things, and, when her father decides that they should set sail for America, the old cupboard helps make her dreams come true.

Discusses the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s within its historical, geographical, and political contexts and examines the possibility of future famines there.

Describes the causes and effects of the Irish Potato Famine, which began in 1845.

A family attempts to withstand the hardships brought about by a blight, which strikes Ireland in the 1840's, ruining potato crops.

Discusses famine in Africa and examines what has caused it, and what can be done to prevent it in the future.

To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to New York City where they join their older sister as servants, earning money to bring the rest of their family to America, where they discover that both food and hardships abound.

Briefly examines the causes, effects, and consequences of famine, drought, and plague and the role humans play in these disasters.

Examines the historical, economic, scientific, and human factors involved in the great famine in Ireland in the nineteenth century.

When the potato blight ruins the food crop in 1846 and English soldiers start turning people out of their homes, Eamonn and his family struggle to survive through the coldest winter Ireland has ever known.

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.