Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L (~5th grade) · 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*.