CLA Children's Book of the Year Award shortlist, 2009 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards shortlist, 2010 Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the...
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