Someplace to Call Home (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781585364145)

2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List. 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award (tied for 1st place). In 1933, what's left of the Turner family--twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers--finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into a new migratory way of life. America is facing two devastating crises: the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country have lost jobs. In rural America it isn't any better as crops suffer from the never-ending drought. Driven by severe economic hardship, thousands of people take to the road to seek whatever work they can find, often splintering fragile families in the process. As the Turner children move from town to town, searching for work and trying to cobble together the basic necessities of life, they are met with suspicion and hostility. They are viewed as outsiders in their own country. Will they ever find a place to call home? New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas gives middle-grade readers a timely story of young people searching for a home and a better way of life.

Author: Sandra Dallas
ISBN-10: 1585364142
ISBN-13: 9781585364145
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 508691 / Someplace to Call Home


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
School Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 67