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Under the Hawthorn Tree
Under the Hawthorn Tree
Author: Marita Conlon-McKenna
Ireland in the 1840s was in the grip of a terrible famine. When their father and mother go missing in a desperate search for food, the three O'Driscoll children, Eily, Michael, and Peggy, are left to fend for themselves. — Starving and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great-aunts they have heard a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780862782061
ISBN-10: 0862782066
Publication Date: 7/1/2001
Pages: 160
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: O'Brien Press
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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We read both books one and two of this series, and learned a lot about the Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840s.


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