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Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
61 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
82) The bottoms
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it. Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
70 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
86) Shiloh autumn
Author
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full frame version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Joad family and their migration to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Depression.
88) Kit's home run
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
Publisher
New Line Home Enertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
90) The big cat
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, a city boy arrives at his late mother's rural Utah birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, feuding, and a cougar.
91) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
92) Speak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
94) Serena
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, newlywed couple George and Serena Pemberton, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Although Serena proves herself to be an important part of their success, overseeing crews and handling every bit of trouble that comes upon them, when Serena discovers she's unable to bear children, it sets her on a path of destruction.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kit is a young girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the struggles of the Great Depression. She enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery that took place in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure. Her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house.
98) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter. This five-part drama is an intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years, as she struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the...
99) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
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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