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21) Mother road
Author
Series
Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a hot summer day in 1932, Andy Connors, who owns a garage that serves Route 66, finds himself in major trouble: He's been bitten by a rabid skunk.
22) The bottoms
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)-classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee.
It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow-moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in...
23) Leah's pony
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c1996.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amid the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Leah's father is faced with the loss of the family farm and puts his stock and equipment up for auction, but Leah comes up with the money by selling her beloved pony.
26) Shiloh autumn
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
447 pages cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
67 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
29) This tender land
Author
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journey to Florida's coast becomes an inescapable nightmare in the newest supernatural thriller from international bestseller Michael Koryta.
Arlen Wagner has seen it in men before--a trace of smoke in their eyes that promises imminent death. He is never wrong.
When Arlen awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First comes love, then comes forgiveness...
But a widowed father struggling during the Depression doesn't have much faith in either-until he meets Emma Spencer in the South Dakota boardinghouse they share. She's a dedicated nurse who could love his boy and heal his own heart. But how can Boothe trust a profession he blames for his greatest loss?
Emma understands Boothe Powers's pain. She has her own secret anguish and believes her dreams of a husband...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
61 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the hard times of 1932, a poor shoe shine man gives a child his cap, gloves, and an angel made from a spool, then receives a wonderful gift in return.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Examines New Deal relief programs in Kansas throughout the Depression from the perspective of recipients, social workers, and poor commissioners. By focusing on the relationship among the local, state, and federal governments, Peter Fearon shows how thesuccessful operation of work relief depended on the effectiveness of those partnerships"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Historical drama set in the Pullman company town, Olivia Mott is drawn into the impending labor strife as she makes a new life for herself.
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