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81) America's first Great Depression: economic crisis and political disorder after the Panic of 1837
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression. The years leading up to the panic, he says, were a time of boom marked by geographic expansion, the near elimination of the national debt, states borrowing large sums for improvement projects, and land values that appeared to be rising without end. He explains that...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
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. In this exciting new Merlin Mission, Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will...
83) Shiloh autumn
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Tucker and Canfield families are weathering the stock market crash just fine on their Arkansas cotton farm, but the Memphis panic and disaster of October 1, 1931 send them into a tailspin and the troubles seem to keep piling up as they try to hold on to their faith in God.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression is faced with prejudice and discrimination that its children do not understand.
85) Bonnie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the life of Bonnie Parker traces the experiences of a young woman from a desolate region of Depression-era Texas whose consuming love for Clyde Barrow culminates in a violent and ultimately fatal crime spree.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia. She struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn. May finds herself juggling her marriage with a tempting opportunity to revamp the family business to adapt to changing times. In a cold-water West...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1918, a fearless 22-year-old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way as an independent woman. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange, she is soon the celebrated owner of the city's most prestigious and stylish portrait studio and wife of the talented but volatile painter, Maynard Dixon. By the early 1930s, as America's economy collapses, her marriage founders, and Dorothea must find ways to support her two...
92) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned Addie falls into the care of a small-time con artist and turns out to be better at it than he is. Set in Depression-era Kansas.
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
93) Dragon road
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the devastation.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling middle-grade thriller author Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the Mysteries of Trash and Treasure series as Colin and Nevaeh unravel a mystery from the 1930s and explore the emotions associated with death and dying. Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends—even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
100) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
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