California or Dust: (A Middle Grade Historical Fiction Novel About the Dust Bowl, Great Depression, and Migration for Kids Ages 8-12)

A powerful story of the devastation of the Dust Bowl—and the courage of those who survived it—in the tradition of Out of the Dust.

We came all the way from California to make something of ourselves.
Today's the day we start.

California, 1939. It's hard being the new kid in school. . . but it's harder for eleven-year-old Lark, after she and her family fled Oklahoma's Dust Bowl for a not-so-sunny welcome in California. Kids whisper Go back to Oklahoma! Lark would give anything to go back to wher...