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Feed the Children First: Irish Memories of the Great Hunger
Contributor(s): Lyons, Mary E. (Editor)
ISBN: 1442482923     ISBN-13: 9781442482920
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $21.84  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Europe
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Cooking & Food
Dewey: 941.508
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.8" W x 9.8" (0.35 lbs) 48 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Ireland
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 60792
Reading Level: 5.8   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The great Irish potato famine -- the Great Hunger -- was one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century. Within seven years of the onset of a fungus that wiped out Ireland's staple potato crop, more than a quarter of the country's eight million people had either starved to death, died of disease, or emigrated to other lands. Photographs have documented the horrors of other cataclysmic times in history -- slavery and the Holocaust -- but there are no known photographs whatsoever of the Great Hunger.

In Feed the Children First, Mary E. Lyons combines first-person accounts of those who remembered the Great Hunger with artwork that evokes the times and places and voices themselves. The result is a close-up look at incredible suffering, but also a celebration of joy the Irish took in stories and music and helping one another -- all factors that helped them endure.

Contributor Bio(s): Lyons, Mary E.: - Mary E. Lyons is the author of many books for children and young adults, including Roy Makes a Car, Feed the Children First, Dear Ellen Bee, Letters from a Slave Girl, and Sorrow's Kitchen. In addition to the Golden Kite Award and a Horn Book Fanfare for Letters from a Slave Girl, Lyons was also the recipient of a 2005 Aesop Award for Roy Makes a Car and a Carter G. Woodson Award for Sorrow's Kitchen. A teacher and former librarian, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. You can learn more about her at www.lyonsdenbooks.com.