Winner of the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction award. Graphic novel telling the tale of a boy and his family during 1937 in Kansas during the Dust Bowl. Phelan tells in the author notes that he wanted to create a story about the life in the dust bowl through the eyes of a child. This is a great tale of a boy who finds a Rain King in an old barn and must make the king go back to the sky to save his family's farmland.