WINNER of the WILLA Literary Award for Best Young Adult Fiction "admirably evokes the dusty, gritty aura of Depression-era Colorado" - Publisher's Weekly "With subtlety and insight, Taylor introduces readers to complexities and truths about love and family" - American Library Association "Taylor nails small-town agrarian Dust Bowl life in the '30s." - School Library Journal On the Depression era Colorado plains, there's nothing but dust and empty farms. It's an unforgiving background to the violence in Cissy Funk's life. She's alone on a scrap of a farm with her mother and brother, and her...