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103) Dust Bowl
Author
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the dust bowl. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important period in American history."--
104) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.
106) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 36
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
"Merlín tiene otra misión para Annie y Jack: rescatar a un unicornio mágico en Nueva York. Pero los pequeños aventureros llegan allí en uno de los períodos más difíciles de la historia de la ciudad: la Gran Depresión. Y justo en medio de una tormenta de nieve que amenaza con volverse más fuerte. ¿Dónde encontrarán Annie y Jack...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
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 a historical note about life in America in 1935.
110) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
111) Los cuatro vientos
Author
Publisher
Suma/Penguin Random house Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
112) Home in the woods
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tar-paper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"[A]n enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore ... as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home."--Container.
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