great depression

First-person account by the youngest of five children born to a prosperous Kansas wheat farmer during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Dekpression, of a family's struggle to preserve their relationships and maintain the farm after the father became seriously crippled when the author was just a child.

A narrative of the Great Depression, this book draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of extreme crisis.

Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression.