Ruth Vander Zee

Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.

As Calvin grows from childhood to adulthood, he and his parents endure four years of dust storms and drought following "Black Sunday" in 1935, and he becomes determined to preserve the land rather than exploit it. Includes historical note.