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Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
82) Leah's pony
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
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.
84) Out of the dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In 1932, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.
86) Booky's crush
Publisher
Feature Films for the Families
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Thomsons, parents, Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (Booky) and Jakey are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents want to support his skill, Thomas in particular wants him to take up a vocation that is a little more stable. This difference places a strain between father and son. And Booky is reveling in her skills in spelling...
87) Loon lake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called Loon Lake.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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 a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
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 a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen--if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated. And then in walks...
92) Just imagine
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, having discovered that she has the ability to have out-of-body experiences, twelve-year-old Mary Francis tries to use it to deal with the "peculiar domestic situation" caused by her family's financial plight.
94) Fallen angels
Author
Series
Millwood Hollow volume 1
Publisher
Warner Faith
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
95) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas. 1921: A time of abundance. Elsa Wolcott meets Rafe Martinelli and changes the direction of her life. Her only choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. 1934: Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Georgia's Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary -- something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt...