{"product_id":"hunger-a-tale-of-courage-9781481477499","title":"Hunger: A Tale of Courage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The first-person narrative portrays Lorraine's family and community with realistically drawn personalities and relationships as well as fine-tuned ethical dilemmas, while sketching in the backdrop of the wider catastrophe. A moving personal story.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Napoli skillfully evokes Lorraine's close-knit community, interweaving elements of Irish culture, history, and land- and seascape in ways that make the story accessible and appealing...a timely reminder about conditions in our current world.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the eyes of twelve-year-old Lorraine this haunting novel from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHidden \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHush \u003c\/i\u003egives insight and understanding into a little known part of history--the Irish potato famine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the autumn of 1846 in Ireland. Lorraine and her brother are waiting for the time to pick the potato crop on their family farm leased from an English landowner. But this year is different--the spuds are mushy and ruined. What will Lorraine and her family do? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen Lorraine meets Miss Susannah, the daughter of the wealthy English landowner who owns Lorraine's family's farm, and the girls form an unlikely friendship that they must keep a secret from everyone. Two different cultures come together in a deserted Irish meadow. And Lorraine has one question: how can she help her family survive? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA little known part of history, the Irish potato famine altered history forever and caused a great immigration in the later part of the 1800s. Lorraine's story is a heartbreaking and ultimately redemptive story of one girl's strength and resolve to save herself and her family against all odds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNapoli, Donna Jo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for \u003ci\u003eStones in Water\u003c\/i\u003e in 1997. Her novel \u003ci\u003eZel\u003c\/i\u003e was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster\/Paula Wiseman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890580521234,"sku":"9781481477499","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_421b8864-44ef-47e1-bd59-98f79106132a.jpg?v=1768309174","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hunger-a-tale-of-courage-9781481477499","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}