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Series
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
As they plant trees and do other environmental projects for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Russian immigrants Pavel and Anatoly are happy to find employment during the Great Depression, but when other workers accuse them of not being "real Americans," Pavel and Anatoly learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner, newly designated by Congress as the national anthem.
24) A plan for Pops
Author
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
"In this illustrated picture book, a child helps their grandparents deal with a difficult change in abilities."--Provided by publisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the compelling story of the "Okie" migration to California and of the construction and life of a remarkable school at a farm workers' camp. This memorable book provides a glimpse of a neglected period of American history and tells a story of prejudice being transformed into acceptance and despair into hope.
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (80 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"Contains three stories focusing on America's Great Depression. In The Lucky Star a girl teaches her sister and other children to read after their school is closed. In Rudy Rides the Rails a boy embarks on a hobo's journey across the country. In Junk Man's Daughter, an immigrant family struggles financially until they start a new business"--
Author
Series
Gene Hammons novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market the system that controls money in America plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called Hoovervilles named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 114 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Until the arrival of European and American settlers in the late nineteenth century, the southern Plains of the United States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming. Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds and especially low, unreliable precipitation made it unsuitable for standard agriculture. But at the start of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
36) Echo Mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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.
37) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 69 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Months after leaving her infant son in Olivia Mott's care, Lady Charlotte contemplates returning to Pullman to find out what happened to her baby, while Olivia wonders if her undercover work for the railroad company is improving working conditions, as she had hoped it would.
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