Black Potatoes: the story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Houghton Miffin Company, Boston, 2001 180 pages.

Bartoletti is a well known and highly respected writer and researcher of History for  children. Social history of the Irish Potato Famine. Good scientific explanation and first person account of famine, as well as explaination of British political policies that caused the famine and caused mass exodus from Ireland.