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81) Lucky beans
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During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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.
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 497 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government's role in Americans' lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day. With this book, writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. He shows how Roosevelt,...
87) Stormy weather
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Pub. Date
c2007
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Witnessing the rise and loss of her family's oil business in the wake of her father's gambling problems, proud young Jeanine accompanies the other women in her family to an abandoned farm when her father dies under dubious circumstances.
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
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En 1935, cuando su madre consigue un trabajo de limpieza para una mujer a la que no le gustan los niños, Turtle, de once años, es enviada a quedarse con parientes que nunca conoció en el lejano Key West, Florida.
89) Full of Beans
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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.
90) Modern times
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Criterion collection volume 543
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Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin?s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times?though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)?is a timeless showcase of Chaplin?s untouchable...
91) Cloudmaker
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 430 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
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Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
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When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations, map, photographs (some color) ; 26 cm
Description
This book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.
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Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 20 cm.
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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.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.
97) Two roads
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Appears on list
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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.
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Publisher
Enslow Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Examines the history of the Great Depression and details the New Deal programs designed to bring relief to the American people and the economy, highlighting the role of President Franklin Roosevelt and showing the impact of his policies on ordinary people.
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