What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Overland Escape
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Series about a girl whose family travels west during the dustbowl/great depression (YA, Maybe Christian Publisher?) [s]
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Awesome! ^_^ If you can, just edit the top post and move this to solved!
Hi - I put the first book in the series in the Book part of the thread. Hope this is okay!
Thanks for the move and update. I just got back to a desktop computer. :-)
Her family traveled west to escape hardship (might have been the dustbowl, or people might have just called them oakies as a generic insult but been wrong about their home state).
In one of the books they live in a barn that's been secretly converted into a house. A boy from the nearby town eventually burns the barn down as part of an arson spree.
They find support from a rich old man who drives a Pierce Arrow car with whitewall tires.
The father is often sad about his struggles to find work. I think he converts the family car to run on heating oil because it's cheeper than gasoline.
A cousin / friend is traveling with them. She has emotional issues after being abandoned by her father. They eventually find him living as a cowboy. He initially resists taking responsibility for his daughter, but relents after saving her from rattlesnakes.
In another book they visit a mining town where something corrupt is happening... I think that the main girl gets trapped in a part of the mine and has to be very careful because she's trapped near some crates of "sweating" dynamite.
These might have been distributed by a Christian publisher. I don't remember anything overtly spiritual about the books, but a lot of my books when I was a teen did come from Christian bookstores, so that's the most likely case...