Drinkwater, Carol <br/><br/>
The hunger 
Carol Drinkwater 
 - 1st. edition 
 - London:  Scholastic,  2008. 
 - 165 p.:  2 x 0.43 x 7.8 inches (paperback) 
 - My Story .
<br/><br/> 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 the fight for a free and fair Ireland… 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781407104799 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Juvenile Literature<br/>Poverty<br/>Plagues<br/>The Great Famine 1845-1849<br/>Hunger<br/>Treatments and Diseases