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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.
4) 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
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.
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
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 2
Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Description
Tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression.
11) Out of the dust
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
12) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
13) Echo Mountain
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
Author
Description
"From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do what's right. Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel, The Truth According to Us, brings to life an inquisitive young...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
iv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
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