Every Friday, Jack spends the day with his Grandma. They romp roly-poly on the ground, they read stories and they eat cake. Then, one cold and rainy Friday, the

Pbk. With his family dead and his village destroyed during the 1840's Irish potato famine, young Patrick Flynne leaves home and begins his journey to America in

Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?

The book details the adventures of the eldest son of a working-class family from the urban Midwest who enters the army in the late 1960s and is transformed from

Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1845, a disas