Title: Hear that whistle blow
First published: 1999
Description: A boy named Hank Proctor wants to be a doctor but him and his family are having hard times during the horrible Great Depression. Hanks father is thinking about taking a train to California and sending money home when he gets a job there, but theres one problem... he's going by himself.
Subjects: Depressions, Poverty, Fathers and sons, Fiction
Time periods: 1929
LC classification: PZ7.S3768 He 1999