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2) Leah's Pony
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
3) Tree of hope
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Florrie's daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Welles reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tar-paper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.