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YA historical fiction, easy read. The O'Driscoll family are land tenants, when crops fails the father is forced to seek work away from home. After the death of an infant and facing starvation, the mother decides to temporarily leave the house and the three remaining children to search for him. Soon after, the family is evicted from their cabin and the children find themselves homeless and alone. They start a long and perilous journey on foot in search of some distant relatives who might help.

This is the first book of a trilogy, a bit lightweight, so best for primary/intermediate children. Good source of information about the potato blight and great famine in Ireland (1845-1850) where an estimated one million people died by sickness and mass starvation.