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Type in the content of your page her  Books on the famine There are loads of books on the famine. Under the Hawthorn tree Under the hawthorn tree is written by Marita Conlon - Mckenna. She has written a few books on the famine. Under the Hawthorn Tree is about three children, Eily, Michael and their little sister Peggy, when there mother goes out to look for there father but she doesn’t come back for a few days. Then, one of the land lords servants comes to their house, and warns them that they must come to the workhouse in three days and leave their home. The land lord’s servant came to the house, so Eily, Michael and Peggy had to get into a carrage with sick people. Eily had an idea that they should run away to their aunt’s house in castlegart. So thats what they did. After a few hours a lady was moning on the ground. She complained about a swollen ankle. When the land lord’s servant went over to the lady, the three children ran away up a hill. When they heard the land lord’s servant calling the tree children’s names, they quickly hid under a bush. After a bit they heard a lady calling them, she could see them aswell so they went over to her. The laid told her that they should follow the river to find there aunts. A few weeks later peggy gets the fever but she gets better after a few days. Then Michael went to look for a soup kitchen. They all went to the soup kitchen that Michael had found. It was packed with loads of very sick kids and adults. <span style="color: #ff66ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">The children finally got soup. <span style="color: #ff66ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">After a few days they final got to the aunts house… <span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">                <span style="color: #66ff66; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"> <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">The wildflower girl <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">The wildflower girl is the second book of the hawthorn tree and Marita Conlon-McKenna also wrote it. <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">It’s about Peggy making a terrifying journey to America to get out of the famine. She is now 13 years old, and is determent to go to America by herself. <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Does she ever meet her family again well read it and see! <span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"> <span style="color: #66ff66; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">The black potato. <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">This book is the story of the potato famine in Ireland. Each <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">chapter begins with a brief folktale or poem. Drawn throughout the chapters, are black and white illustrations, taken from the time across Europe when the famine was around. The book tells you all about the famine, and what happened through that period of time. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;"> <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Greener grass <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> Greener grass is written by Caroline Pignet. <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">There is adventure, suspense, romance and despair; life-and- death-situations lead to courageous decisions, and the character grow before the readers eyes. It has intelligent description is very challenging!!!!!!! <span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> <span style="color: #ff9966; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">Fields of Home For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily's first child, has the future to look forward to. What kind of future is it? Ireland is in turmoil, with evictions, burnings, secret meetings, fights over land. Eily and her family may be thrown off their farm. Michael may lose his job in the big house. And Peggy, in America, feels trapped in her role as a maid. Will they ever have land and a home they can call their own? Eily, Michael and Peggy have once shown great courage. Now this courage is called on again <span style="color: #610354; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"> … <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;">

<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 26pt; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">History of the famine <span style="color: #29363a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;"> <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Forte; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This book is about the history why the Great Famine was so tough, and its effect on Irish culture. It explains how and what happened in the period of the time. <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Forte; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">It tells you what caused it and how it happened. Featuring different things on the Famine which has never been published before, this is an interesting period of history, as well as the bad things that has happened to the people of Ireland. <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Forte; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Read it, it gives you loads of information! <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Forte; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">               <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Beesknees ITC'; font-size: 16pt; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">