1929

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1929

Kit's surprise

a Christmas story
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.

Two roads

In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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Migrant mother

how a photograph defined the Great Depression
Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother and her children.
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No promises in the wind

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

All the stars denied

When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself witih her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
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Rudy rides the rails

a Depression era story
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.

The wind called my name

When ten-year-old Margarita Sandoval's family moves to Wyoming during the Great Depression, she faces racism, homesickness, and the possibility that her grandmother's land in New Mexico may be lost.
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Snow White

This darkly stylized, film noir retelling of the fairy tale imagines Snow White transported to a Depression-era Manhattan that is caught in the pall cast by memories of the Roaring Twenties' long-lost prosperity and glitz.
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The Great Depression

worldwide economic crisis
2018
Explores the history of the Great Depression in the United States.
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The high climber of Dark Water Bay

2018
Orphaned in 1929 Lizzie, twelve, is sent to a Vancouver logging camp where the camp boss, a scoundrel, gives her a perilous job while seeking ransom from her absent uncle.
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