This Tender Land

Set in the depression, this deeply moving novel will keep you wanting more.

This covers the journey of 4 vagabond kids during the summer of 1932.  A crime is committed by one of the children and they must flee.  This follows them as they meet up with many others along the way and must evade capture by the authorities.  The reader of this was fantastic.  I'm sure the book version would be great as well