depressions

In the middle of the Great Depression, Lennie and George find work on the Tyler Ranch, planning on saving towards a place of their own. Their plan is disrupted when Lennie gets into trouble with the owner's son and his unhappy wife.

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

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.

Ulysses Everett McGill and two fellow convicts escape from their chain gang in rural 1930s Mississippi and have a series of adventures reminiscent of Homer's "Odyssey.".

During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

With her mama recently dead and her pa out of the picture since her birth, big sister Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister - and the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father - and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard.

An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression experiences acts prejudice and discrimination that are not understood by the children.

Presents a collection of facts that looks at the Great Depression in the United States.

Offers a graphic novel exploration of significant people and events during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.

A graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression which focuses on the economic realities and the largely forgotten individuals and events that influenced the period, asserting that the government made the Depression "great" by overlooking the men and women who were trying to help themselves.