It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing and one thing only. Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly's daughter. No one knows him, but everyone knows his name, Mr. Shivers. In this extraordinary debut, Robert Jackson Bennett tells the story...

"Times are tough for Anna Harrington. But times are even tougher for some of her friends, who've been devastated by the Great Depression. Dot's family is hungry nad may lose its home, while Chet, riding the rails as a hobo in search of work, is in trouble with the law. Twelve-year-old Anna and her cousin, Fred, watch in sorrow as others suffer, wondering what they can do to show God's love to their friends. Soon, they come up with some clever ideas...

Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away.

"Life has never been easy for Cottonmouth Tomlin. Raised by an uncle in a hardscrabble Arkansas town, Cottonmouth couldn’t leave fast enough. As a young man, he set out to seek his fortune but was soon caught up in a life of low-level misdeeds, taking him from New Orleans all the way to Honduras. Now he’s back in Columbia County, mourning his uncle and worrying on what to do with the broken-down outlaw camp that represents the sum of his family...

In 1934 Pennsylvania, while her father sets out to save a struggling newspaper, idealistic eighteen-year-old Julie Wallace takes a stand in the battle between steelworkers and their bosses and finds her courage tested by a natural disaster.

As the Harrington family struggle to remain united during the Great Depression, they face additional hardships in the form of drought and a series of mysterious fires.

First in a series of fictional books based on the true-life family history of author Eleanor Clark.

As he Depression wears on relentlessly and the barren land buckles under the ravages of nature, Marvel and her family must decide whether to stay on their land or to join the parade of travelers leaving for Oregon.

Hildy travels with her family to California in search of a better life, only to find that her father's promised job has been given away. Sneered at and called "Okies", they pitch their tent under a bridge among other desitute migrant families.