The Road To California This is a choose your own adventure story

1. The Road To CaliforniaThis is a choose your own adventure story Written by: Team Invincible

2. You live on a farm in Kansas. For many years, you have not moved from this farm.It is your home. One day your father comes to you and says,“Son, we might have to move from this farm because we don’t have the money to pay the bank.” This really hurts you because you were born and raised on that farm. You don’t want to see it foreclosed. If you were to move, you’d have to be heading over to California to look for a job. Choice 1 you stay at the farm. Choice 2 you go to California

3. It is a very bumpy ride to California. You went up a steep hill. You looked at all the other drivers.“Please let us get there safely,” you whisper as you go over an enormous hill. You look back at a dust storm blowing over what you thought was your farm .“I’m scared,”you tell your father. “ Don’t worry because we’re here!” your father exclaims. It doesn’t look very special to you, though.

4. You have gone back to the farm without any water. A few days later you die of thirst. Most people didn’t have money to buy water, food, clothes, or shelter and most of them died.

5. Now you are trying to find a job. You go to a job where they call you names like lazy and sissy for not working very hard. You want to stay anyway, but your father calls you to see other jobs. Choice 1 you stay at the job Choice 2 you go find another job

6. You follow your dad to another job, you find a job that pays you 25 cents an hour. You and your dad work there. Pretty soon by the end of 3 years, you’ll live comfortably because you saved all of your money. The Great Depression taught you that you never trust a bank with all of your money and that you never waste anything.

7. You stay at the old job. You were lied to by the man. He doesn’t pay you anything. You stay poor wishing that you listened to your father. You don’t make money, but you were lucky that your father had listened to his instincts. Sometimes bad choices lead to bad consequences. Choice 1 go back to the farm because your Auntie offered work to you Choice 2 you go to your Father

8. You go back to the farm where your auntie offered you work . One day tax collectors came and took your farm and you had to live on the streets .Your dad comes and picks you up.You thank him for coming all he way to Kansas just to get you.Tears of joy come running down your cheek.You and your father go back to California. During the Great Depression, family looked out for one another.