Children of the Great Depression, Paperback

Reducere. Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper...

DescriptionChronicling the experience of New York City's Jewish families during the Great Depression, this work tells the story of a generation of ...

Reducere. Charlie was a happy girl; she was just like anybody else. That is, until she made friends with a dog...Written by a psychologist, Charlie and the D...

A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this "powerful" novel by the bestselling author of Songs i...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, more than 250, 000 children left their homes and hopped freight trains crisscrossing the United States. They were look...

DescriptionBonnie and Clyde met on January 5, 1930, when she was 19 and he was 20. They liked each other and began dating. The rest is history. In ...

Dr. Shirley F. B. Carter was born in Boston, Massachusetts during the Great Depression. She grew up in Worcester, attended college and University i...

Reducere. Based on a true story, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl is an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when ...

Reducere. Soaring, My Improbable Life is the inspiring story of a poor, African American boy growing up in the Great Depression, who dreams of traveling the ...

Reducere. Raising a gifted child is both a joy and a challenge, yet parents of gifted children have few resources for reliable parenting information. The aut...

Reducere. Parenting gifted children is ..".the world's biggest, highest, longest roller coaster...a theme park full of thrill rides. Sometimes you smile. Som...

Reducere. Quint is a dazzling and inventive novel based on a true story of the Dionne quintuplets-the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy....

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award Five Starred Reviews A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans know...

Reducere. DescriptionA way to talk to kids about D.I.D.s (Dissociative Identity Disorder)Conversations about mental health can be difficult. The Patchwork Qu...

Reducere. Inspired by the tales of four grandmothers - Thuan Le Elston's and her husband's - Rendezvous at the Altar: From Vietnam to Virginia traces Anne's ...

Reducere. Fans of Before We Were Yours will adore this USA Today bestselling historical novel: A heartbreaking yet hopeful tale about a brave young woman who...

DescriptionDespised and feared by her sprawling family, Victoria Hastings Harrison Greene refuses to go quietly from her long life without revealin...

Reducere. The author takes the Viennese family of Viktor Baur through the turbulent years of World War I, the difficulties of feeding the family when money w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tillie OlsenIntroduction by: Linda Ray PrattYonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 192...

Reducere. James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black school...

Reducere. DescriptionUncover the key moments that shaped American history in this extensive history encyclopedia for children. Get the background on the Batt...

Reducere. Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great socia...

Reducere. DescriptionSkinny House-A Memoir of Family is a story of perseverance in the face of ruin and a glimpse into the past of the inventive, remarkable ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

Reducere. For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drur...

Reducere. Born in 1918 in Fort Benton, Montana, Nedra Sterry has crafted a powerful memoir of life on the Montana prairies and a childhood defined in equal m...

Reducere. Atomic Power With God Thru Fasting and Prayer is a short work by the spirited evangelist Franklin Hall. The book describes how prayer during extend...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Victoria GoldenAuthor: William WaltersFrom 1854 to the early 1930s, the American Orphan Trains transported 250, 000 childre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleThe Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drab...

Reducere. GOLD as October Sunsets, a Stray Dog, and God's Good Plans is the fourth book in Niedfeldt's Lisenka series, but you don't have to read the first t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Homemade Noodles and Cars, Arlene, who has lived almost a century, tells the story of her family-from World War I and how it affected...

Reducere. A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of...

Reducere. The author describes the journey of a young boy growing up in a middle class neighborhood in Philadelphia born to a father whose life was destroyed...

Reducere. Arkansas Hillbilly is the account of a country boy's experiences growing up in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Cleburne County, Arkansas. T...

Sila, a young, bewitching Cherokee, flees a marriage to a brutal drunk in the dead of winter and finds herself knocking on the door of a mill offic...

Reducere. Rachel's story is a true one of young love, joys and triumphs experienced, but also is about difficulties of being and staying together, as they ar...

Reducere. Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the steadfast company of her husband. But n...

Reducere. In simple yet all-telling black-and-white graphics, Freeman unfolds a humorous, lively, deeply human, and yet modern story of William Shakespeare b...

Reducere. Welcome back to Hope River in New York Times bestselling author Patricia Harman's newest novel as midwife Patience Hester, along with her family an...

Reducere. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Nig...

Reducere. At the age of fourteen, Paul Miller had to leave school to run the family farm during the grips of the Great Depression. For the eldest of seven ch...

Reducere. This is the amazing story of Violet Jean Anderson Gerber (known as Jean), which begins in the Great Depression and follows her life as a mother, mi...

Reducere. Will Sam purge his guilty conscience before it's too late? Will he atone for his offenses and find solace in the final countdown? Sam Fox spent his...