Based on actual events, the story of a boy growing up in the Great Depression.
At the end of the 1930s, Sonny Tompkins goes from happy but poor twelve year old to independent, hard working young man in the wake of abuse and injustice in his hometown of Mulberry Kansas. Sent West to live and learn the ways of his Uncle Buck and friend Billy May, the lessons taught Sonny all his life; honesty, hard work, fairness and honor, come into play every day in a quest for survival in the Great Depression.
Sonny learns to hunt, chop wood, build cabins, gentle horses and fall in love all in one year. Most importantly, he learns the value of a man's word, and treasure of a man's family.
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
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