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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - American Classics
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - California Fiction
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - California Fiction
Description
The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
7) The bottoms
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Grace and Favor mysteries volume 6
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1953]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Augie March, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression, and his search for a career. Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.
12) Secret Santa
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
vi, 153 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Based upon the author's firsthand experience while working with refugee farmers in the Farm Security Administration camps of California. Born in 1907 in an Otoe Indian community in the Oklahoma Territory, Babb joined the FSA camp in California in 1938 tohelp uprooted farmers. She submitted the manuscript for this book in 1939, but it was shelved because of John Steinbeck's 1939 best-selling novel, The grapes of wrath.
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war to end all wars is over, and the soldiers have come home. Birch Tucker, with his wife Trudy, and his sons, makes his way back to Shiloh, Arkansas, his boyhood home, to carve out a new life for his family. Mrs. Meyer, now a financial columnist for the "New York Times," moves among the wealthy and influential stock barons of the world.
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