Mr. Wilson's Great Depression Fiction Books
November 10, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Cur
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Fic Dur
Durbin, William. The Journal of C.J. Jackson : a Dust Bowl Migrant . Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Fic Fas HS
Fast, Howard. The Immigrants . The saga of three families living in San Francisco during the earthquake, World War I and the Depression.
Fic Fas HS
Fast, Howard. Second Generation . This sequel to "The Immigrants" depicts the life of Barbara Lavette, daughter of the son of a poor Italian immigrant and a woman of San Francisco's elite, from the Depression through World War II.
Fic Fit HS
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Follow the adventures of Jay Gatsby as he tries to win back the woman he loved and lost.
Fic Hes
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Fic Jan
Janke, Katelan. Survival in the Storm : The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards. A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Fic Pec
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from Chicago : A Novel in Stories. A boy recouonts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Fic Las
Lasky, Kathryn. Christmas After All : The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift. A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells 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.
Fic Ree
Reeder, Carolyn. Grandpa's Mountain. During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park.
Fic Rya
Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising. Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Fic Ste HS
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. A family struggles to survive during the Depression by traveling to California looking for work.
Fic Tay HS
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the Circle be Unbroken. Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need.
Fic Whi
Whitmore, Arvella. The Bread Winner. When both her parents are unable to find work and pay the bills during the Great Depression, resourceful Sarah Ann Puckett saves the family from the poorhouse by selling her prize-winning homemade bread.
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