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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Language
English
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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 publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
Author
Series
Hope River volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
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 publication. But when it leads to his big break, the consequences...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
59 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ruthie discovers on the day after Christmas that her friend Kit Kittredge and her family are going to be evicted from their house, she comes up with a plan to create a happy ending.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer meet and fall in love, but the secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
14) Wonderland Creek
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book until her boyfriend breaks up with her and she looses her library job during the depression. She goes to the coal-mining town of Acorn where she finds adventure, mystery, and romance.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
185 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
18) Echo Mountain
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is...
20) Once a midwife
Author
Series
Hope River volume 4
Language
English
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Description
When her husband is imprisoned for his pacifist stance when the U.S. enters World War II, midwife Patience Hester fights for her husband's release while running her practice in the face of hostile neighbors.
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