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Winner! Western Writers of America 2020 Spur Award - Best Western Juvenile Fiction Category. Tied for 1st Place! 2020 Women Writing the West Willa Award 2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List. 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.

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Sandra Dallas is the New York Times bestselling author of the middle-grade novels Hardscrabble, The Quilt Walk, Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky, and Someplace to Call Home. A member of the Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame, she is the author of ten nonfiction books and seventeen adult novels, including The Last Midwife, Prayers for Sale, The Diary of Mattie Spenser, The Persian Pickle Club, and Little Souls. A former Denver bureau chief for Business Week magazine, she is the recipient of three National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Wrangler awards, four Western Writers of America Spur Awards, and six Women Writing the West WILLA Awards. She lives in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado. Visit her at www.sandradallas.com.

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