New York: Wendy Lamb Books / Random House, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel for younger readers - a follow-up to his Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Awardwinning 'Bud, Not Buddy', and a book which reveals the devastation of the Depression. "Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story. 'We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful' is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, but the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for black men. When her father leaves to find work, Deza, Mother, and her older brother Jimmie go in search of him, and end up in a shack in a Hooverville outside Flint, Michigan." INSCRIBED on the half title page with the comment "I am a great fan of educators" and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385734912.