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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...
3) The miracle
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Singing River series volume 3
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English
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Raising four strong-willed younger siblings after her mother's death and her father's imprisonment, seventeen-year-old Lanie Freeman never knows what new adventure will roll into view-such as her brother's wild idea to turn the family's old truck into a traveling store. The Freeman Rolling Emporium could provide the financial security Lanie and her family so desperately need, or it could tear them apart. Yet it's only a prelude to other changes. Author...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 5
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 5
The American girls collection volume Book 5
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 5
The American girls collection volume Book 5
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
Author
Series
Singing River series volume 1
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English
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Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. 'God,' she finally said, 'I'll do my best, and if you'll help me, that's all I ask.' Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has...
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Grace
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English
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At the age of 25, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress and little more than a year later, she became royalty. Stunningly beautiful, elusive, and aloof, Grace Kelly captured our imagination and affection throughout her storybook career and royal marriage. Raised in Philadelphia in an atmosphere of great wealth and greater expectations, Grace transformed from an aristocratic conforming beauty into a sensual, recklessly daring woman.
In Grace,...
11) Dawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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With the coming of dawn is the coming of death for a captured English officer in British-controlled Palestine. Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter, is his executioner. Ordered to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner, Elisha thinks about his past-a sorrowful memory of the nightmare of Nazi death camps. As the only surviving member of his family, he dreamt of a wonderful future in his promised homeland. But instead,...
13) Bud, not Buddy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A 10-year-old boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Depression, escapes a foster home and sets out to find the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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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 cruelly...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
The American girls collection volume Book 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
The American girls collection volume Book 4
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated edition of Norton Juster's story about ten-year-old Milo, who is the owner of a magic tollbooth, and his experiences in the "Lands Beyond," and includes interviews with the author and illustrator, excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, commentary, and more.
20) Prayers for sale
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they s
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