Nowhere to call home
By: Cynthia DeFelice.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.; Tramps -- Fiction.; Runaways -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.
Description: When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.