Pickle and Price — Pieter Van Raven

Tired of living with an abusive father and an unloving mother, who supervise a rural prison farm, thirteen-year-old Pickle and the released black convict he has befriended travel all the way across America in search of adventure, freedom, and a life free of discrimination.The world of 1950s America comes to life in the saga of two young men--John Pickel Sherburn, a young white southerner escaping from an abusive father, and Price Douglas, a young black man seeking to put his past behind him--as they journey to California