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Bud, Not Buddy
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Christopher Paul Curtis,Alberto Jimenez Rioja,aa,Reginald André Jackson |
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:
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Kitchen Privileges
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Mary Higgins Clark |
Lively memior of mystery author Mary Higgins Clark. She had been a secretary, stewardess, copywriter, radio writer, and bestselling author. The book has a humorous touch even when discussing tragi… |
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Walking through the dark
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
The Depression causes Ruth's dream of college and a teaching career to be no longer certain, but at the same time it enables her to grow as a person as she encounters others in difficult situations. |
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The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
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Paul R. Krugman |
Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. |
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Little heathens
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish |
A memoir from a schoolteacher of growing up in the heart of the Midwest during the Great Depression describes her close family life on an Iowa farm during a time of endless work and resourcefulness, … |
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Why did the Great Depression happen?
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R. G. Grant |
Includes firsthand speeches, letters, diary entries, and other primary source materials that give the reasons this unforgettable event unfolded as it did, this book describes the Great Depression. |
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The Christmas promise
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as h… |
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Turtle in paradise
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Jennifer L. Holm |
Inspired by family stories, two-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm beautifully blends family lore with America's past in this charming gem of a novel, ri… |
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Beforever
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Valerie Tripp |
"Turning Things Around, the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"-- |
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck |
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Drive… |
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The worst of times
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James Lincoln Collier |
In the early 1930s in Chicago, twelve-year-old Petey's family faces poverty and internal strife after his father loses his job, while, at the same time, his wealthy, older cousin takes on the dangero… |
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Let The Circle be Unbroken
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Mildred D. Taylor |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves … |
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The Great Depression
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R. G. Grant |
Discusses the economic chaos that followed the 1929 stock market crash, including accounts of the Roosevelt Administration's social programs and the social disorder in Europe that fueled the rise of … |
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen,John Randolph Jones,David LeDoux |
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Ja… |
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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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Autumn Winifred Oliver does things different
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Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
AUTUMN WINIFRED OLIVER prides herself on doing things her way. But she meets her match when she, her mama, and her pin-curled older sis, Katie, move in with her cantankerous Gramps. The Oliver gals w… |
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