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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
5) Sounder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
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.
11) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
16) Kit's tree house
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kit dreams of having a special tree house someday, but she is disappointed with the one her father and her friend build for her. Includes note on housing during the Depression and a related craft activity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This "riveting" companion to the PBS documentary "clarifies our understanding of the 'worst manmade ecological disaster in American history'" (Booklist).
In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe,...
In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe,...
18) Sounder
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Story of a black sharecropper family in Louisiana during the Depression. A father steals food for his family; his wife provides love, security and strength while he is in prison; and their oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns.
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