Blue Willow is a HF Newbery award winner. This novel is about the young daughter of a migrant family in San Joaquin Valley after the Great Depression. This is a very special book to me because the author,Doris Gates, actually worked with migrant children from Fresno, California (where I am from) to write the book and I was first introduced to this book when I was in the 3rd grade. This novel is great for RA, LC, and IR.