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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 820L · 2016

Why we'd hand it over

A landmark history book for this age—Bartoletti's use of first-person accounts makes the Famine viscerally real while her source discipline teaches kids how history is actually *done*.

Where to get it

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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (ages 10–14) — ChapterScout