Seven-year-old Brandon Hall has been neglected by his mother and abused by the men she keeps. He is removed from the home and taken to the Childers' eighteen-hundred acre Angus ranch. He is shy, afraid, and seemingly scarred permanently by his ugly p...
Is a child's potential determined by social class or skin color? Kirk and Katie Childers believe that every child has a special brand, put there by The Almighty, and specific to that child alone. They see their foster son, Thorne Barrow, as no except...
Thurman Jenkins insists on staying on his inherited Oklahoma family farm, in spite of the continuing drought of the 1930s. Crops are ruined and pantries are empty. Many neighboring farmers have moved to California, hoping for a better life. He bel...
The year is 1936. Crops are ruined. There isn't a well-fed cow in three hundred miles. Most are a pile of bones under mountainous dust drifts. Home pantries from years past are bare. Thurman Jenkins is a good man, loves his family-but desperate men d...
Seven-year-old Brandon Hall has been neglected by his mother and abused by the men she keeps. He is removed from the home and taken to the Childers’ eighteen-hundred-acre Angus ranch in central Oklahoma. He is shy, afraid, and seemingly scarred...