Ruby's hope : a story of how the famous "Migrant Mother" photograph became the face of the Great Depression by Kulling, Monica 

BTSB Prebound(Page Street Kids, 2019)

BTSB #: 534236 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.6 LG Lexile: 660

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Lange, Dorothea - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Family life - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Migrant labor - Fiction Photographs - Fiction

Summary: During the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother."

Sittin' up by Moses, Shelia P. 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2014)

BTSB #: 661442 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Community life - North Carolina - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Sharecroppers - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead.

Sittin' up by Moses, Shelia P. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02437 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Community life - North Carolina - Fiction Death - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Sharecroppers - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: When Mr. Bro. Wiley, Bean's adopted grandfather and the last slave man around, dies in the summer of 1940, Bean and his very best friend Pole are some kind of hurt. Everyone in the Low Meadows is. Despite their grief, they are proud and excited to be included in their very first Sittin' Up - a wake for the dead. Bean and Pole know this special week will be one to remember, especially if the coming storm has its way and riles up Ole River enough to flood the Low Meadows right in the middle of Mr. Bro. Wiley's Sittin' Up.

Someplace to call home by Dallas, Sandra 

Paperback(Sleeping Bear Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 255477 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-13   
AR: 3.8 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Poverty - Fiction

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.

Tormenta de nieve en luna azul [Casa del arbol. Mision Merlin (Magic tree house. Merlin mission--Spanish) Volume: #36]by Osborne, Mary Pope 

PaperbackSPANISH(Lectorum, 2016)

BTSB #: 693564 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.3 LG

Genres: Spanish Language Chapter Books Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Time travel - Fiction Magic - Fiction Unicorns - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Tree houses - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn. In Spanish.

Turtle in paradise by Holm, Jennifer L. 

Paperback(Yearling, 2016)

BTSB #: 460079 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.7 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: V

Genres:

Subjects: Cousins - Fiction Family life - Fiction Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Key West (Fla.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who hates children, 11-year-old Turtle is sent to relatives she has never met in Key West, Florida.

Two roads by Bruchac, Joseph 

Paperback(Puffin, 2019)

BTSB #: 163291 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Tramps - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Creek Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Oklahoma - Fiction Oklahoma - History|y20th century - Fiction Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.

Two roads by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 172394 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Great Depression, 1929-1939 - Fiction Tramps - Fiction Father-son relationship - Fiction Veterans - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Creek Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Oklahoma - Fiction Oklahoma - History|y20th century - Fiction Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.