The Road From Nowhere

From master storyteller and Newbery medalist Avi, The Road from Nowhere is a tightly plotted adventure in the old west, a tale of boyhood and two rivaling brothers stranded in a small mining town, and a deep dive into the history of one of America’s most desperate periods of economic crisis.

Only three kids live in the tiny, remote high Colorado desert silver mining camp of Gatchett’s Gluch, population 45.

Brothers Ollie and Gus, thirteen and eleven, and Alys, the only girl in town, are the o...