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The Great Depression is a period that most young people consider ancient history, but their own grandparents probably remember it well, for the country was in shock and nothing afterward was ever the same. This story, told through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl, is an account of what it was like in those dust-bowl days when thousands of people migrated west in search of the promised land: California. Whole families made the trek across Route 66, and their children went with them. One of them was Meg Buckland. Evicted from their home in Missouri, Meg and her father made their way westward...

The Great Depression is a period that most young people consider ancient history, but their own grandparents probably remember it well, for the country was in shock and nothing afterward was ever the same. This story, told through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl, is an account of what it was like in those dust-bowl days when thousands of people migrated west in search of the promised land: California. Whole families made the trek across Route 66, and their children went with them. One of them was Meg Buckland. Evicted from their home in Missouri, Meg and her father made their way westward...

A TIME TO GATHER STONES is a companion book to the author's earlier novel, ONE MAN'S WAR. The latter was the story of a young man caught up in The Great War of 1918. This is a continuation of his life, but told from the eyes of the sweetheart who wrote him so faithfully and became his wife. It is basically an account of a young woman faced with a widening world . The 1920's and 1930's change the role of women forever, and Lindy Jones moved with it. A person of inner strenghth amd a fierce determination she took up her role as a small-town wife and mother, a support to her husband and his...

A TIME TO GATHER STONES is a companion book to the author's earlier novel, ONE MAN'S WAR. The latter was the story of a young man caught up in The Great War of 1918. This is a continuation of his life, but told from the eyes of the sweetheart who wrote him so faithfully and became his wife. It is basically an account of a young woman faced with a widening world . The 1920's and 1930's change the role of women forever, and Lindy Jones moved with it. A person of inner strenghth amd a fierce determination she took up her role as a small-town wife and mother, a support to her husband and his...