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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
329 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests, she's determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin--a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
67 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Junia is a mule. But she's not just any mule. She's a mule with an important job. Every morning she carries her Book Woman up and down the rugged hills and surrounding woodlands near the Kentucky town of Troublesome Creek. Book Woman is a Pack Horse librarian. She and Junia deliver free books and reading material to the people living in the hills and woodlands during the Great Depression. Junia won't ever let her friends down."-- Front cover...
88) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
67 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
Author
Series
Family tree volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
92) A room of my own
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This charming, old-fashioned story of a girl growing up during the depression will convince you that anything is possible. Against a backdrop of authentic hardship and despair, 13-year-old Virginia Eade discovers the true source of happiness. A doctor's daughter, Virginia spends her days dreaming of romance with "the two Charlies"-Charles Lindburgh and Charlie Chaplin. Soon Virginia is forced to give up her room to less fortunate relatives, and failed...
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence lives in Dust Bowl-era Oklahoma with her mother, mentally impaired sister, and sheriff father. Pearl's secure life begins to crumble when a hobo named Eddie comes into town and exposes a shocking secret that involves the whole town.
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, Jason and Whit Fireson are forced into a police shootout and die...for the first time.Now it appears that the bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an admiring public have at last met their end in a hail of bullets. Jason and Whit's lovers-Darcy, a wealthy socialite, and Veronica, a hardened survivor-struggle between grief and an unyielding belief...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains the product of her hardscrabble Midwestern roots and an insatiable drive to live, love, and give. A woman who has crawled through Moscow warehouses to rescue the Tsar's treasures, who has outrun the...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gabe Talmadge languished in prison for ten years, convicted of a horrible crime. Now free, he's unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, he returns home to Ransom, Idaho, hoping his uncaring father will give him food and shelter, if not love. But the prodigal isn't welcomed home. Hudson Talmadge, who virtually owns the town, despises his son as much as ever, and Gabe is as powerless as an adult as he was as a child...
100) The longest road
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The poignant and captivating story of one young woman's journey across America during the Dust Bowl years. After a violent dust storm leaves their mother dead and the family farm in ruins, twelve-year-old Laurie Field and her younger brother, Buddy, believe their world has ended when their grieving, debt-ridden father brings them to live with their reprobate grandfather in the Oklahoma Panhandle, promising to send for them when he finds one of those...