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In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
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Language
English
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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts
...63) Dreamland
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era (Reese Witherspoon) meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband (Christoph Waltz).
67) With hope
Author
Series
Dolan brothers series volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
69) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1992
Edition
Widescreen format; special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
70) With heart
Author
Series
Dolan brothers series volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
549 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
68 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her father's business closes because of the Great Depression forcing Kit to make changes in her life, the nine-year-old responds with resourcefulness.
73) Prayers for sale
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
74) The dust bowl
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
71 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 11
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
[Colorized version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A girl helps her Depression-poor father get a job after she befriends a cantankerous millionaire.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
178 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While staying with her Aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
80) The Babe & I
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
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