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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the newly married seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, who has moved to their small mountain Colorado town to escape the ravages of the Great Depression, octogenarian Hennie Comfort forges a friendship with the young woman based on shared hardships and secrets.
Author
Language
English
Description
2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner, who can see impending death in people's eyes, warns fellow rail passengers that the train is going to crash, only Paul Brickhall heeds his warning, but the two end up stranded at The Cypress House, an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house.
Author
Publisher
Fons & Porter
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, the Farmer's Wife offered inspiration and positivity in the "Letters From Our Farm Women" column. Each month, the magazine published letters from readers that offered support and encouragement to each other in an economically challenging time for our country. This book shares ninrty-nine of these letters from The Farmer's Wife magazine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
6) Sounder
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era Louisiana, an African-American boy sets out to find his father, who has been sent to a labor camp after stealing food for his starving family, and struggles to cope with the shooting death of the faithful family dog.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against the backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
8) Ava's man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Shonauthor continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression and the inspiring story of the man who raised her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
11) Maude
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2015.]
Physical Desc
477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Maude", Mabry writes the story of her paternal grandmother's life, beginning on the day of her birth in 1892. She reveals a woman who experienced the best life had to offer and the worst events imaginable. Through it all, Maude clung to her faith and kept going.
12) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 36
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, twelve-year-old Kit Kittredge's dog Grace mysteriously vanishes and Kit tries to figure out who took her and why. Includes information about pets and dog shows during the Great Depression.