depressions

In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.

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.

Tells the story of the stock market crash which occurred in October 1929, examines the causes and effects of the financial calamity, and looks at how government policies and programs changed in response to the disaster.

Features American Girl Kit, who receives a new tree house for babysitting the horrible Pew children, but now she holds a secret that could hurt her father and friend and has to make a decision whether or not to tell the truth.

Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression.

Discusses school life during the Great Depression, including schools, lessons books, and teachers. Addresses social and economic life during the 1930s. Includes activities and sidebars.

When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.

Examines the events leading up to the 1929 Stock Market crash that resulted in the Great Depression; and explores the methods enacted by both President Hoover and later President Roosevelt to bring the country back.