Great Depression/1930's

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Easton, Kelly – Walking on Air   
(233 pages) In 1931, a young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father, and seeking her own answers about God, her family, and her life of poverty and homelessness. (N)

Hartnett, Sonya – Thursday’s Child   
(261 pages) A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.  (N)

Haycak, Cara – Red Palms   
(327 pages) When fourteen-year-old Benita's wealthy family goes bankrupt as a result of the Depression, they go from their luxurious life in Guayaquil, Ecuador to a primitive island, with the wild scheme of starting a coconut plantation.  (N)

Hunt, Irene – No Promises in the Wind    
(184 pages) A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression. (N)

Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird  
(296 pages) Scout's father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s.  (N)

Ingold, Jeannette – Hitch   
(272 pages) To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success. (N)

Kaplow, Robert – Me and Orson Welles  
(260 pages) Richard Samuels, a stage-struck seventeen-year-old from New Jersey, gets a small role in Orson Welles's debut production of "Julius Caesar" at the Mercury Theatre on Broadway.  (N)

Kerr, M.E. – Your Eyes in Stars   
(229 pages) In small-town Cayuta, the daughter of the prison warden and the daughter of the wealthiest man in town form a fast friendship—until a young man serving a life sentence comes between them, testing their loyalties and their loves.  (K)

Kudlinski, Kathleen – The Spirit Catchers  
(165 pages) During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Parker finds himself homeless and traveling across New Mexico's desert, when a shepherd leads him to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe who teaches him photography and gives him a new perspective on life.  (N)

McNichols, Ann – Falling From Grace 
(164 pages) In a small Arkansas town in the 1930s, thirteen-year-old Cassie Hill's grief-stricken sister leaves town, her father becomes overly friendly with the new preacher's wife, and her Sunday School teacher causes trouble, but Cassie finds comfort in her new friendship with a quiet boy from Hungary.  (N)

Peck, Robert Newton – Bro   
(150 pages) Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.  (N)  Set in 1933.

Peck, Robert Newton – Horse Thief   
(231 pages) In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo and finds a family in the process.  (N)

Poupeney, Mollie – Her Father’s Daughter   
(245 pages) During the Depression era of the 1930s Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father.  (N)

Schwartz, Virginia Frances – Messenger  
(277 pages) Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.  (N)

Slade, Arthur – Dust   
(183 pages) Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. (N)

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