great depression, 1929-1939

Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.

Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

Analyzes the 1929 collapse of the stock market discussing the ways financiers and bankers ignored reality and therefore encouraged the crash.

Story of the thousands of teenagers who hopped freight trains during the Great Depression; archival footage and a foot-stomping soundtrack.

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Ten-year-old Enrico, desperate to care for his mother during the Great Depression of 1934, takes a job in the ring of fire where dragons are trained--a place he has been forbidden to go.

Examines how the Great Depression affected such diverse elements of American society as economics, the arts, literature, mass media, ethnic and gender relations, the functioning of government, international relations, religion, politics, crime, public health, education, and everyday life.

When an accident leaves her orphaned, Lizzie's life in the bustling city of London is over forever and nothing she has ever experienced could prepare her for her new home, a whole continent away on a dusty prairie farm in Canada.

Contains entries that provide information and analysis of topics related to the Great Depression, from the farm crisis of the mid-1920s to the entry of the United States into World War II, covering business, culture, economic conditions, government, labor, and other topics, and including biographies. Arranged alphabetically from A to K.