LOTTRIDGE, Celia Barker

Gr 4—6—It's the height of the Great Depression, and Ellen watches as her father and the other men in their small rural town hop a freight train west in search of work...

Gr 6-10 When nine-year-old Samira and her family leave their Persian village, fleeing war in 1918, it is the beginning of a five-year odyssey in which she crosses national borders, loses both parents, and creates new family connections before her return, thanks to a determined orphanage director, Susan Shedd...