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Cousins Fiction Depressions 1929 Depressions 1929 Fiction Depressions 1929 Juvenile fiction Depressions 1929 United States Juvenile literature Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Key West (Fla.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction Race relations Fiction United States History 1933-1945 United States History 1933-1945 Juvenile literatureMoss, Marissa.
Summary: Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle/Harcourt 2001
Copies Available at Rapid City Elementary
1 available in Fiction, Call number: F MOSRuby, Laura
Summary: When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION RUBYSchatzer, Jeffery L.
Summary: Jarek Sokolowski and some of his Polish American friends sign up for the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression and go to work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, clearing land, fighting fires, and growing from boys into men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2008
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F SCHCopies Available at Kalkaska Middle School
1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHAdler, David A.
Summary: While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: E ADLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION HOLMHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION HOLMStein, R. Conrad.
Summary: Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs intended to restore the economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1993
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1 available in Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 STEAppelt, Kathi
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 027.0769 APPELTJanke, Katelan.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
Copies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: J FICTION DEARSummary: Set 1: The Crash of 1929; The Civilian Conservation Corps; Hoover Dam; set 2: Surviving the Dust Bowl; Seabiscuit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS 2009
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2 available in DVD, Call number: DVD ADULT 245Call number: DVD ADULT 246
Summary: Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in DVD, Call number: DVD ADULT 545Brooks, Malcolm
Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BROOKSElster, Jean Alicia.
Summary: In 1935 Detroit, a twelve-year-old African American boy learns about the realities of racial injustice while working for his father's wood company during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y CLASSIC ELSTERFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 305.23 FREEDMANFriedrich, Elizabeth.
Summary: A young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, Inc. 1996
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE FRIEDRICHOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F OSBCopies Available at Kalkaska County Library
1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION OSBORNECopies Available at Birch Street Elementary
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] OSBCopies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] OSBTerkel, Studs
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 TERKELThomas, Sarah Loudin
Summary: "After promising a town he'd find them water and then failing, Sullivan Harris is on the run; but he grows uneasy when one success makes folks ask him to find other things-like missing items or sons. When men are killed digging the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, Sully is compelled to help, and it becomes the catalyst for finding what even he has forgotten-hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THOMASOtfinoski, Steven.
Summary: Presents information about the Great Depression that left millions of Americans without jobs, including how people struggled to make a living in a time of high unemployment and how the government tried to solve the country's economic troubles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 330.9730916 OTFINOSKIErnst, Kathleen
Summary: While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION AMERICAN GIRLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
Copies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] HOLCopies Available at Birch Street Elementary
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] HOLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J GRAPHIC HOLMHurst, Carol Otis.
Summary: A young man has a lifelong love of rock collecting that eventually leads him to work at a science museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2001
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: [E] HURQuattlebaum, Mary
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 2001