This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, sh…
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned ban…
During the Depression era of the 1930s, Maggie grows up in the logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father.