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Nowhere to Call Home

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By Cynthia C. DeFelice
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Nowhere to Call Home
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A Depressionera adventure from a master storyteller Tramping is for people with nothing to lose and nowhere to call home. Twelveyearold Frances Elizabeth Barrow thinks that describes her when she clips her hair and, disguised as a boy, flips a train west. Left a penniless orphan after her fathers bankruptcy and subsequent suicide, Frances is sure that hoboing is better than being sent to live with an unfamiliar aunt in Chicago. On the drag, she meets Stewpot, a fifteenyearold boy who teaches her the ropes everything from the jargon to the signs the hoboes leave for one another, to how to outwit the cops. She also learns that being free exacts a price, and comes to appreciate her old life. Cynthia DeFelice captures the despair and the hope of individuals facing the Great Depression in this story about a spirited young heroine filled with resolve after all she has experienced.

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42648 words42,648 words
208 pages208 pages
Lexile 870LLexile 870L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 1999Published 1999

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9780374355524

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