depressions

Violet Mathers, abandoned by her mother and abused by her father, decides to travel to California and throw herself off the Golden Gate Bridge, but a bus accident in North Dakota puts her life on a new course when she is rescued by Austin Sykes and Kjel Hedstrom, a musical team who catch her up in their dreams of stardom during the Great Depression.

A graphic novel adaptation in which in 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

A collection of photographs from the United States' Great Depression that were taken by the Farm Security Administration.

"When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose their livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer"--Provided by publisher.

"The Great Depression was a time of severe hardship, especially in the United States. With a quarter of the population out of work, families struggled to survive, obsessively saving money, food, and material to reuse or recycle. This 'Depression mentality' stuck with many people for the rest of their lives. Supplemented by historical photographs, annotated quotes, and a fact-filled timeline, the . . . text discusses the causes and lingering effects of the Great Depression. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to think critically about this period and how it has affected the world they live in today"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.

Fiona, Elena, and Marcus travel to Chicago in 1938 to help a vampire recover her stolen locket.

After her father abandons Frankie and her sister Toni in an orphanage, Frankie does everything she can to make sure she and her sister survive during the Great Depression and World War II.