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Author
Series
York volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Abandoned in a Chicago orphanage with her sister, Frankie endures injustice, poverty, and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.
4) Moonshine
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
8) Tennyson
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
71 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 compact disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the Swamp Ghost that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
67 p. : col. ill. ; 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
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day girl finds herself in 1933 Cincinnati, Ohio, and as she and Kit experience life during the Great Depression, the reader is invited to choose how Kit might help her family and others who are less fortunate.
Author
Publisher
Ensign Peak
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul's family has struggled to make ends meet during the devastating dust storms of the Midwest. When a family arrives in need, Jake must choose between helping the family or saving his beloved calf. A Christmas miracle helps him learn the true meaning of the season--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
70 p. : ill. ; 23 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
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kit's family has to take in boarders, it seems as if they may be able to keep their house although her father lost his business, but the changes put a strain on Kit's friendship with Ruthie, especially as Kit spends her days helping cranky Uncle Hendrick.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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