Tripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: "Ruthie Smithens, a girl who loves fairy tales and happy endings, doesn't mind being 'goofy Ruthie' if it makes her best friend, Kit Kittredge, smile and forget about the hardships of the Depression. But when Ruthie finds out that the Kittredges are going to be evicted from their house, she makes up her mind to help..."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRISummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007