Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died mysteriously twenty years before and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
The influential story of the Joad family amidst the Great Depression, illuminating their journey from disparaging Oklahoma to the deceptively promising fields of California.
Depicts the personal struggles of the McCaskill family in 1930s Montana as they face a forest fire, the coming of age of fourteen-year-old Jick, rodeos, and community dances.