No Promises in the Wind

By: Irene Hunt

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression.

In 1932, Americans’ dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. When he was just 15 years old, Josh had to make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of his struggle to find a life for himself during those turbulent times.

©1970 Irene Hunt (P)2012 AudioGO

Wonderful Narration! Heartwarming and Emotional read!

The Narrator does a fantastic job with the differing voices and characters. Hunt tells the compelling story of brothers who leave their family home in Chicago to try to make it on their own when their father is stressed and angry about the depression and not being capable of feeding the boys properly. This is a journey story the boys face hardships, first loves, sad goodbyes, joys and perils of trying to make without their family. It is also one of redemption!

A great book!

Absolutely loved it! it is a hard story, because at time you want to laugh then cry! True to life, could have actually for all I know about it!

Beautiful Story!!

This book now tops my list of favorite reads!! Beautifully written and narrated. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened to this 2 young brothers. I rarely read about the Depression, however, I felt so close to my folks who would have been the age of the little brother and are no longer with me. So many experiences matched the stories they would tell me about growing up in Kansas during these trying times. I loved this book from beginning to end!!!

No Promises in the Wind

If you could sum up No Promises in the Wind in three words, what would they be?

Moving, realistic, heart-felt

What did you like best about this story?

The way Josh matured and came to realize that if you're human, you will make mistakes.

Which character – as performed by Charlie Thurston – was your favorite?

Howie - he seemed to catch Howie's personality in the little bit of time he had

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Howie's death was a shocker even though it was foreshadowed

Any additional comments?

I've done this as a novel study multiple times. This is the first time I've had the audible book. It really adds a lot to the study.

Riveting and beautiful story of survival and love

This story portrays the intense struggle for survival in two runaway boy in the Great Depression. A story of emotional distress, growth and redemption. The narration was at first a bit hard for me to warm up to but it paralleled the story perfectly. Ultimately the narration, character development and saga were amazing.

Good look into life during the great depression

I really enjoyed this book. It had a lot of good principles and gave a look into life during the great depression.

Captivating!

Very well narrated.
Very interesting, you won't want to stop until the last chapter.

Excellent story line.

This was well written. The story line was well written. The book was historically realistic. I really enjoyed listening to it. The reader was excellent. I’m going to start from the beginning and read it again!

Different

I enjoyed this book not what I typically listen to. Also not a boring or lagging in the story line at all.

Please sequel!!

This book was AMAZING! It was a little slow at first but this books feels kids our feats and pride our standards vs what we wish to do. Goodness this wowed me so much. Plz Ms. Hunt write a sequel just a hour long book ensuring us that they have a happy life. Please!!!!!!