depressions

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

A black girl describes the hard work and the rewards involved in growing up on a farm during the Depression of the 1930s.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

A collection of letters by the ordinary men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression.

Profiles the presidential administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt that chronicles their early years, political careers, presidencies during the Great Depression, Roosevelt during World War II, and the legacy that each leader left behind.

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless Michigan boy living during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--renowned bandleader H.E. Calloway.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

As they plant trees and do other environmental projects for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Russian immigrants Pavel and Anatoly are happy to find employment during the Great Depression, but when other workers accuse them of not being "real Americans," Pavel and Anatoly learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner, newly designated by Congress as the national anthem.