famine, 1845-1852

Presents facts about life on the famine ship "Dunbrody"--which carried Irish immigrants to America during the Great Famine in the nineteenth century--through fictional journal entries by a nine-year-old boy, and features pop-up illustrations, lift-flaps, and other props.

On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by one of his descendants.

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.