Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.

• ISBN: 9780374327651
• Author: Heneghan, James
• Published: 2000 , Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Themes: Adventures, famine, Foster Homes, Time travel
• Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Ireland
• No. of pages: 256