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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Set during the Great Depression, this is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl and her devoted but impoverished father. There's no work for the father, so the two of them are forced to ride the rails, searching for a safe place they can call home. Although times are tough, the love they share and the trust between them proves to be the most valuable Christmas gift of all.
5) Leah's pony
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
8) Lucky beans
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A creative nonfiction story of how, during the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother." Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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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