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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
Memories of the Irish Potato Famine from 1845-1850 were so devastating for the survivors that few ever talked about it, even among their own family members. But Susan Campbell Bartoletti has managed to uncover enough first-person anecdotes to personalize her balanced account of the history and politics behind the Great Famine. This book also includes information gleaned from newspapers and public records, in addition to secondary sources. Her narrative, accompanied by period sketches, chronicles the effects of years of potato blight, which led to massive starvation, disease, emigration, and the complete failure of an economic system based on absentee landlords and tenant farming. ©2001 Cooperative Children's Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 11-14
Age Range:
Grades 6-8 (Ages 11-13)
Grades 9-12 (Age 14 and older)
Format:
Substantial Narrative Non-Fiction
Subjects:
19th Century
Death and Dying
History (Nonfiction)
Illness and Disease
Immigration and Immigrants
Irish and Irish Americans
Oppression
Politics and Political Systems
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Publish Year: 2001
Pages: 184
ISBN: 0618002715
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 941 Bartoletti