Someplace to Call Home

ISBN: 1585364142

Author: Dallas, Sandra

Condition: Used

Product Description2021-2021 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.ReviewThis narrative is full of fascinating details about flour-sack dresses and bean sandwiches. A story of the Great Depression that's both gritty and gratifying. --Kirkus ReviewsDespite the harshness of this time in history, Dallas's focus on the children serves as a gentle introduction to the Great Depression. As in all good historical fiction, the dialogue and setting are accurate and natural. The plot is intentional and evenly paced; nothing is trite or modernized. --School Library JournalHonest and good children teach others the difference between squatters and helpers, and surrounding families demonstrate the real meaning of neighbors. Someplace to Call Home is a great read that is fun, poignant and encouraging, a call to the true meaning of home. - The Historical Novel SocietyA sensitive portrayal of what it s like for young people, both then and now, in search of a home and a better way of life, Someplace to Call Home is a powerfully moving story of courage, perseverance, family and friendship. --Kendal Rautzhan (syndicated columnist)About the AuthorSandra Dallas is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Quilt Walk and Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky. She has written ten nonfiction books and fourteen adult novels, including The Last Midwife, Prayers for Sale, The Diary of Mattie Spenser, and The Persian Pickle Club. A former Denver bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine, she is the recipient of two National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Awards, two Western Writers of America Spur Awards, and four Women Writing the West WILLA Awards. She lives in Denver. Visit her at www.sandradallas.com.