Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and mak

A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so re

A creative nonfiction story of how, during the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in Californ