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The storyteller's daughter
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Jean Thesman |
Fifteen-year-old Quinn, the middle child in a Depression-era working class family, learns some secrets about her beloved father, who has always been a source of strength and optimism for his family, … |
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The Babe & I
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David A. Adler |
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. |
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The wizard's tide
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Frederick Buechner |
An eleven-year-old boy describes the joys and sorrows of growing up in a dysfunctional family with a jobless alcoholic father during the hard times of the Depression. |
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Blizzard Of the Blue Moon
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Mary Pope Osborne,Marcela Brovelli,Sal Murdocca |
Merlin has sent Jack and Annie on another mission to rescue a beautiful magical creature, the unicorn. AC 44650. |
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Song of the trees
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Mildred D. Taylor |
During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man. |
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Leo and the Lesser Lion
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Sandra Forrester |
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, lived for some special purpose. |
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At season's end
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Eric Hendershot |
When Sal and her brother are suddenly orphaned during the Depression, the heartbroken teens load all their earthly possessions into the trunk of a travel-worn 1929 Buick and head out on the adventure… |
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Wonder show
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Hannah Rodgers Barnaby |
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco'… |
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Bread Winner
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Arvella Whitmore |
When both her parents are unable to find work and pay the bills during the Great Depression, resourceful Sarah Ann Puckett saves the family from the poorhouse by selling her prizewinning homemade bre… |
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Dust for Dinner
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Ann Warren Turner |
Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression. |
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Tales from the home place
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Shelley Dale,Harriet Burandt |
Eight stories capture the life of twelve-year-old Irene Hutto, growing up on a cotton farm in Texas in the 1930s, based on the life of Harriet Burandt's mother.
Life is one adventure after another f… |
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Give Dad My Best
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James Lincoln Collier |
During the depression a young boy tries to hold his family together until his father, an unemployed musician, finds work. |
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Goodbye, Walter Malinski
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Helen Recorvits |
In 1934, even though life is hard for Wanda Malinski and her family, she enjoys school, good times with her best friend, and a special relationship with her older brother. |
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As far as Mill Springs
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Patricia Pendergraft |
Tired of being bounced from one foster home to another during the Depression, twelve-year-old Robert embarks with his friend Abiah on a long journey to find his mother, hoping to reach her in time to… |
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Midnight in Lonesome Hollow
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Kathleen Ernst |
While staying with her Aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher. |
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The least one
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Borden Deal |
*The Least One* portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal’s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. Deal portrays the r… |
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Cissy Funk
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Taylor, Kim. |
Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado. |
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Who's Jim Hines?
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Jean Alicia Elster |
In 1935 Detroit, a twelve-year-old African American boy learns about the realities of racial injustice while working for his father's wood company during the Great Depression. |
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Meet Kit
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Valerie Tripp,Walter Rane |
When her father's business closes because of the Great Depression forcing Kit to make changes in her life, the nine-year-old responds with resourcefulness. |
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Kit learns a lesson
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Valerie Tripp |
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where… |
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