Contains excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, and letters that provide insight into the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s on America and its people.
A reprint of the 1972 memoir, told in the voice of a young boy, of the author's experiences growing up in the Marion area of southern Illinois during the Great Depression.
Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away.
Nine-year-old Kit Kittredge responds with resourcefulness when her father's business closes because of the Great Depression and she is forced to make changes in her life.
