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This is the Paperback edition of "No Promises in the Wind" by Irene Hunt, a Newbery Award-Winning Author. The book is in Brand New condition.

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Haggard and beaten men wait beside a factory gate for work that isn't there. Careworn women join a breadline, their eyes downcast in shame. Half-starved children roam the countryside, begging, stealing, hunting food in dumps and garbage cans.

This is the United States in 1932. This is the world in which fifteen-year-old Josh Grondowski must make his way.

The struggle to survive in such a world is a desperate one. But Josh's bigger struggles occur within himself. How can he love a little brother whose frailty has shortened his own childhood, absorbed most of his parents' concern? How can he forgive a father whose every word is harsh and critical? How can he care about anyone when just staying alive is so difficult?

Josh's struggle with these questions leads him to an understanding of the crushing power of poverty and to a new toleration of his own and other men's imperfections.