Holm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOLVanderpool, Clare.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLMcMorris, Kristina
Summary: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McMorris 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P FIC MCMHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HOLTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAYRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024
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Summary: In 1933, when twelve-year-old Hallie Turner and her brothers, Tom and Benny, take to the road seeking whatever work they can get, they find kindness in small-town Kansas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DALMcMorris, Kristina
Summary: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures the desperation sweeping the country in 1931. It's an era of breadlines, bank runs, and impossible choices. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children, not meant for publication. But when the image leads...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DAGKimmel, Elizabeth Cody.
Summary: Before Kit can write a news story about an upcoming sold-out jazz concert, sinister pranks threaten to cancel the show and Kit is falsely accused of stealing a valuable trumpet. Includes an "Inside Kit's World" essay about the popularity of jazz and swing music during the Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KIMCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURHoberman, 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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Hoberman 2009Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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Summary: Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC HOLHaddix, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADGarlock, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARChurchill, Jill
Summary: Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUChurchill, Jill
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUGarlock, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARMurkoff, Bruce
Summary: Their lives and dreams dramatically compromised by the Great Depression, three individuals journey to the vast construction site of the Hoover Dam in Nevada in the hopes of starting their lives over or exacting revenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURHickman, Patricia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Faith/Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICGruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRULandvik, Lorna
Summary: In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n' roll, Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with a handsome musical pioneer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005