great depression, 1929-1939

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on the 1920s when the issue of women's rights became so controversial.

In Depression-era Louisiana, an African-American boy sets out to find his father, who has been sent to a labor camp after stealing food for his starving family, and struggles to cope with the shooting death of the faithful family dog.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events from the stock market crash of 1929 through the years of the Great Depression.

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

"In 1931, nine naughty children who received coal in their stockings travel from Pittsburgh to the North Pole to plead their case to Santa Claus"--Provided by publisher.

Contains episodes eleven and twelve of "Freedom: A History of US," which looks at America in the early twentieth century, covering the Wright brothers' invention of the airplane, joining the fight in World War I, women's suffrage, and the 1920s; as well as the stock market crash, Great Depression, New Deal, and joining the fight in World War II.

Presents a comprehensive bibliography of juvenile and young adult literature of the Great Depression era of the 1930s and includes both fiction and nonfiction, biographies, oral histories, memoirs, and photographs, and music.

In 1934, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

A young man struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of the 1930s.

In 1932, during the Depression in Ohio, thirteen-year-old Rudy, determined to help his family weather the hard times, hops a train going west to California and experiences the hobo life.