In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
While her father is away at war, eleven-year-old Princess ignores his warning that pet ownership leads to pain when she raises an orphaned possum on their Oklahoma ranch, then tries to send it back to the wild.
During a hard winter the father of a pioneering German family settling the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma freezes to death and his fourteen-year-old son must assume responsibility for the struggling family.
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Oklahoma, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
After her father remarries, twelve-year-old Stacy runs away in search of her real mother, only to be befriended by a wizened old woman who lives alone in the desert.
In hiding from the Soldiers of God, the Oklahoma antigovernment militia group whose members have now turned against him and his parents, a fifteen-year-old boy remembers what it was like to grow up among them.
The influential story of the Joad family amidst the Great Depression, illuminating their journey from disparaging Oklahoma to the deceptively promising fields of California.
