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Describe the setting- include location, time period, and socioeconomic characteristics. This book takes place in Declare, Oklahoma. Declare is a small town where word spreads fast about anything and everyone knows everyone by at least there family ancestry. The time period takes place in between the 60's-70's. Most of them that live in this town are poor and middle class, but there are always one or two rich families there. Some things that make them poor are that a couple live in really unsafe houses, do not have much money to buy food, and they can not provide for their families like the rich families.