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Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
From the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain's End comes a novel set during the Great Depression following two estranged sisters and their mother--who has spent a lifetime hiding a desperate secret that could dismantle the entire family.
10) Two roads
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Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
15) Bonnie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A reimagining of the life of Bonnie Parker traces the experiences of a young woman from a desolate region of Depression-era Texas whose consuming love for Clyde Barrow culminates in a violent and ultimately fatal crime spree.
17) The Babe & I
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
18) Palisades Park
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
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