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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A traveling librarian ventures into the mining towns of Kentucky on horseback and rediscovers her passions in this powerful novel from the best-selling author of A Silken Thread"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Meet Kit
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The American Girl Collection
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner, who can see impending death in people's eyes, warns fellow rail passengers that the train is going to crash, only Paul Brickhall heeds his warning, but the two end up stranded at The Cypress House, an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer meet and fall in love, but the secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
12) By starlight
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
While running an illegal speakeasy in Colton, Montana during the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge must keep her secret from Jack Rucker, an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart and who is now a Prohibition agent working undercover.
13) Wingwalkers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. "They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from the sky that morning, the ones that announced the coming of DELLA THE DARING DEVILETTE, who would DEFY THE HEAVENS, shining like a DAYTIME STAR, a WING-WALKING WONDER borne upon the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
16) The Four winds (
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
18) Changes for Kit
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The American Girl Collection
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration's sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
x, 118 p. : ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
