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Under the Hawthorn Tree

by Marita Conlon-McKenna · 1990

Children of the Famine seriesbook 1 of 2Next:Wildflower Girl(1991) →

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.

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