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61) Out of the dust
Author
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.
64) The longest road
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their bright twelve-year-old daughter to college, beginning a chain of events that teaches the Grunts the value of their family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 6
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Spotlight hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Due to the Great Depression, money is tight for the Vandermeers until a wealthy benefactor starts purchasing family heirlooms, but questions are raised when they realize that this mysterious buyer has paid more for the items than they are worth.
75) Cloudmaker
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight lessons. As his airplane takes shape, and the young cousins...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 411 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map
Language
English
Description
"The "Panic of 1907," as it was called, is considered the third worst stock market crash in history. Historians say it lasted from January 19, 1906, through November 15, 1907. The market crash was primarily caused by a credit crunch in New York that slowly spread across the country. To try to offset the decline, the U.S. Treasury department bought $35 million worth of government bonds. The Panic of 1907 aims to discuss the drivers of this crash and...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kamp siblings expect a Christmas without presents. When their father scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change. Just when Norman and Ruthie believe their hopes and dreams are dashed, small miracles teach the true meaning of Christmas giving.
78) The train jumper
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maeve Fanning, Irish but raised among the Italian families of Boston's North End, is determined to better herself despite the hardships of the Great Depression. A fondness for strange men and bootleg gin results in Maeve becoming an unwilling patient in a psychiatric hospital. There she strikes up a friendship with another woman unable or unwilling to control her un-lady-like desire for freedom. Once out, armed with a bottle of bleach and a few white...
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