Features
The Great Depression
Hard Times For Jake Smith: A Story of the Depression Era
Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Historical Fiction
Ages 12 and up
Milkweed, 2004,1-57131-649-3
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Dairy of Minnie Swift
Kathryn Lasky
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic, 2001, 0-439-21943-4
Survival of the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
Katelan Janke
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic, 2002, 0-439-21599-4
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The Journal of C.J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant
William Durbin
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Scholastic 2002, 0-439-15306-9
Meet Kit: An American Girl, 1934
Valerie Tripp
Illustrated by Walter Rane
Vignette by Susan McAliley
Historical Fiction (Series)
Ages 7 to 12
Pleasant Company Publications, 2000, 1-58485-016-7
Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930's
Michael L. Cooper
Fiction
Ages 10 and up
Clarion Books, 2004, 0-618-15549-3
Rose's Journal: The Story of a girl in the Great Depression
Marissa Moss
Fiction Picture Book
Ages 8 to 12
Harcourt, 2001, 0-15-202423-9
Hoping For Rain: The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler
Kate Connell
Fiction/Non-fiction
Ages 8 to 10
National Geographic, 2004, 0-7922-6903-9
Saving Strawberry Farm
Deborah Hopkinson
Pictures by Rachel Isadora
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
HarperCollins, 2005, 0-688-17400-0
Six Days in October
Karen Blumenthal
Non-fiction
Ages 12 and up
Atheneum, 2003,0-689-84276-7
The Dust Bowl
David Booth
Illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Kids Can Press, 1996, 1-55074-295-7
The Miner’s Daughter
Gretchen Moran Laskas
Fiction
Ages 14 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2007, 1-4169-1262-2
Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story
Dandi Daley Mackall
Illustrated by Chris Ellison
Picture Book (Series)
Ages 7 to 10
Sleeping Bear Press, 2007, 1-58536-286-7
We the People: The Great Depression
Michael Burgan
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Compass Point Books, 2002, 0-7565-0152-0
We the People: The Dust Bowl
Ann Heinrichs
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Compass Point Books, 2005, 0-7565-0837-1
Children of the Great Depression
Russell Freedman
Non-fiction
Ages 10 and up
Clarion Books, 2005, 0-618-44630-3
Black Tuesday: Prelude to the Great Depression
Robin S. Doak
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 9 to 12
Compass Point Books, 2007, 0-7565-3327-9
Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression
Written by Kate Lied
Illustrated by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 6
National Geographic, 1997, 0-7922-6946-2
The Truth About Sparrows
Marian Hale
Fiction
Ages 12 and up
Henry Holt, 2004, 0-8050-7584-4
Kit’s World – A Girl’s-Eye View of the Great Depression
Harriet Brown and Teri Witkowski
Novelty (Series)
Ages 7 to 12
American Girl, 2008, 978-1-59369-459-3
The Lucky Star
Judy Young
Illustrated by Chris Ellison
Picture Book (Series)
Ages 8 to 12
Sleeping Bear Press, 2008, 1-58536-348-0
The Gingerbread doll
Susan Tews
Illustrated by Megan Lloyd
Picture Book
Ages 6 to 8
Clarion, 1993, 0-395-56438-7
Don’t forget Winona
Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson
Illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
HarperCollins, 2004, 0060271973
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