Title: The Christmas promise
Description: A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as he can.
Subjects: Father-daughter relationship, Depressions, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Tramps, Juvenile fiction, Christmas stories, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Historical fiction, Christmas
Time periods: 1929