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Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 1
Formats
Description
A debut novel featuring Patience Murphy, an Appalachian midwife in the 1930s struggling against disease, poverty, prejudices, and her own haunting past to bring new light and life into an otherwise cruel world.
6) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
67 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ruthie Smithens, a girl who loves fairy tales and happy endings, doesn't mind being "goofy Ruthie" if it makes her best friend Kit Kittredge, smile and forget about the hardships of the Depression. But when Ruthie finds out that the Kittredges are going to be evicted from their house, she makes up her mind to help. Ruthie knows that to bring about a happy ending, she'll have to be as smart and brave and determined as she can really, truly be.
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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
During the Great Depression, Jack helps his mother make cookies for the needy at their church, learns the story of how the first Christmas cookies were used to spread the gospel to people who could not read, then finds a way to bring that story to life.
12) By starlight
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
473 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
13) Cat running
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
14) Prayers for sale
Author
Formats
Description
Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
19) Beck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
261 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Description
Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
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.
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