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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The story of the 1939 Missouri sharecroppers strike reveals the complex issues of cotton farming in the early 1930s and what it was like to be a sharecropper in that time. One wintry morning in January 1939, residents of southeastern Missouri awoke to a startling sight. More than 1,000 sharecroppers - mostly African American but whites too - had camped out alongside two state highways with their families and a few meager belongings. They were taking...
44) Echo Mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
47) Of mice and men
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the Great Depression, Lennie and George find work on the Tyler Ranch, planning on saving towards a place of their own. Their plan is disrupted when Lennie gets into trouble with the owner's son and his unhappy wife.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new...
51) Great Depression
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the Great Depression. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important period in American history." --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers' defiant stance, and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it, challenged a system of mill owner control that had shaped life in cotton mill communities for decades. Sixty years after the government brutally...
56) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their eight-year-old son. As the sheriff and his young...
59) 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.
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