What Came West: A Novel Children's Classics guiding readers through the complexities

guiding readers through the complexities of hive life

and wonderful characters

But some of the townspeople aren’t very welcoming—and they have some unsettling traditions

" ―Library Journal (starred review)

Hamilton has been like this forever

What Came West: A Novel Children's Classics guiding readers through the complexitiesThe author of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize winning novel The Great Glass Sea returns with a gripping adventure story that probes the expansive, shifting wilds of the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush. Like a patient pine or ancient mineral, Josh Weil watches history and humanity in What Came West, with an attention that feels as monumental as the wilderness and wildness he transcendently portrays. Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten Book Sierra