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When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive.

Twelve-year-old Dubliner Kathleen Delaney is given the chance to take Irish dancing lessons in 1937 and discovers she has a talent for it.

In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.

Kit Byrne's family unity is tested in nineteenth-century rural Ireland when the potato famine hits and wealthy landowner Lord Fraser drives them from their home, launching a series of tragedies that separates Kit from her family as they try to escape to a better life.

In 1588 Ireland, fourteen-year-old Nora Donovan risks her life to rescue a boy and a stallion from a Spanish vessel shipwrecked on the beach.

Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.

After returning from captivity and being traded to Norman invaders, Lara and her horse escape and find refuge with nuns whom she teaches to breed horses.

Lara faces many obstacles in her attempts to rescue Dannsair from the Baron of Athenry.

Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during dinner, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.

Darcy Heart O'Hara, a young Irish girl who neglects her chores to observe the beauties of nature and everyday life, shares "family memories" with her homesick parents and siblings after the O'Haras are forced to emigrate to America in the 1840s.

The faeries of Knockabeg become involved in the Irish potato famine of 1845 to 1852 as they wage war on each other.

With only the mythical luck of a golden torc, the necklace of their ancestors, to protect them, Sean and Annie O'Brien leave famine-stricken Ireland to search for their father in a strange land called America.

While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in eighteenth-century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with the law of King George II.

As the orphaned Doyle brothers leave Ireland to sail to the United States in 1846, thirteen-year-old Aiden is accidentally separated from sixteen-year-old Liam and must make his own way to New York, find work, and somehow find his brother.