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Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALB

Tatlock, Ann.

Summary: The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolionas 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAT

Friedrich, Elizabeth.

Summary: A young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, Inc. 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRI

Bennett, Robert

Summary: Set against the desolate backdrop of the Great Depression, this debut novel is sure to reignite the horror genre. Mr. Shivers is a chilling and unforgettable figure as haunting as any monster out of mythology.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Bird, Sarah

Summary: "Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIR

Williams, Jeanne

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAD

Hoberman, Mary Ann.

Summary: Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOB

Reiss, Kathryn

Summary: During the Great Depression, aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge uncovers a mystery surrounding a secret room in the rundown mansion owned by elderly Miss Mundis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REI

Hoberman, Mary Ann.

Summary: Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Hoberman 2009

Hoberman, Mary Ann.

Summary: Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Hoberman 2009

Wheeler, Eliza

Summary: During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHE

Elliott, Laura

Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELL

Summary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIT

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