From the palm trees of Fresno, California to the pine trees of Machias, Maine, Home to New England follows the cross-country journey of author Clifton J. Noble, Sr. and his mother, Minnie Emerson Noble, as they continue their faith-driven quest for a home of their own. Join them as they board the train in California to return to family and friends introduced in Noble's books 31 High and California Here We Come. Meet new friends and benefactors the two encounter as they face and overcome new challenges in pursuit of their American dream.

The Nobles lose their home at 31 High Street to mortgage foreclosure in 1939, and widow Minnie Emerson Noble has to "win the bread" until June 1942 when her son Jerry finishes high school. During those three years, animated movies, art, bicycles, blueberries, church, dancing school, friends (one with ESP), music, even murder, impact the lives of mother and son until they board a train bound for Fresno, California on the day after 16-year-old Jerry's graduation.

Staying a few months with Minnie's sister and her capable, one-armed Welsh husband until Jerry can become breadwinner, the Nobles embark on a new world of adventure in a strange city. They live independently in rented cottages and explore wartime California by bicycle and friends' automobiles, seeing the sights from Fresno to Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Yosemite National Park. As clerk, doorman, draftsman, and student, Jerry encounters optometrists, preachers, projectionists, sailors, singers, soldiers, usherettes. People from all backgrounds and all walks of life help him and his mother depend upon and build their faith in uncertain times.

Born in 1926, in Westfield, Massachusetts, author Clifton J. (Jerry) Noble lived in the house at 31 High Street with his parents, Clifton and Minnie Noble. Jerry's many adventures in this small New England town offer an appealing overview of the simplicity of life during the 1920s and 1930s. Trolley cars and trains, both steam and electric, roll eastward to Boston and to the Massachusetts coast at Marblehead, where Noble learns the hard way about seventh waves and small boats. Initially home schooled by a wise and loving mother, young Noble revels in puppets and the theater-despite his father's objections-and later prevails over problems with public school and a junior high school principal. Jerry's escapades range from the impromptu bath he receives when his next door neighbor, Eulalie, pushes him into a park pond, to an encounter with the widow of famous American composer Edward MacDowell in a New Bedford hotel and an experience with zero gravity involving his uncle Sam's1930s Buick and a mound-covered culvert. Delve into the vivid memories of the first thirteen years of Noble's life in his delightful memoir, "31 High."