Author: Drinkwater, Carol
Children's, Teenage & educational
Published on 5 May 2008 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 192 pages
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THE HUNGER is the exciting tale of a girl swept up in the fight for a free and fair Ireland, set at the time of the Potato Famine. It's 1845, and blight has destroyed the precious potato crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to support her struggling family, but when her mother's health deteriorates she sets off in search of her rebel brother and is soon swept up in Ireland's fight for freedom...