hit II - 1930's

[bevrovelli <brovelli@LYNCOURT.CNYRIC.ORG>]

had a bunch of new suggestions..not sure if they are really for 5th grade
level..bev

here is a book that takes place in California around the 1930''s - the title
is Blue Willow.

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pretty sure there is a Lois Lenski title about the depression -
>she wrote Strawberry Girl about migrant workers which may be the one I am
>thinking about but I am not sure
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The Murder" by Felice Holman  set in a coal mineing town in the 30s.
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Song of the Trees- by Taylor. (About a black family in the south.)
-A Girl from Yamhill- by Beverly Cleary. (Her autobiography set in Oregon
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Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore  - When both of
>Sarah Ann's parents cannot find work, she saves the family from the
>poorhouse by selling her homemade bread.
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 THE CAVE
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There is a brand new one I read this week, called Treasures in the Dust
by Tracey Porter.
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 RedDirt Jessie by Myers, although the
Depression is not as central to the story as it is in Treasures in the
Dust.
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Cat Running by Snyder
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while it is not fiction, I highly Recommended Jerry Stanley's Children of
the Dust Bowl - a Crown book.  Don't be put off by the picture on the
cover that might imply for a younger reader.  I read this and LOVED it.
Told staff who went 'yeah...." read it and LOVED it!  Try it - guaranteed
to love it.
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I really like "A day no pigs would die" by Robert Newton Peck.  This is a story
of a poor farming family; the father earns extra money by butchering pigs.  The
family overcomes financial hardships with grace and the youngest son learns
some lessons the hard way.
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GRANDPA JAKE AND THE GRAND CHRISTMAS by Mildred Ames.  Lizzie
plans a grand Christmas with her Grandpa who turns up after not having
been seen in years, and then finds out there really isn't any means by
which to achieve the plans.
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  IN COAL COUNTRY by Judith Hendershot is a
lower level book, but very good in describing life in an Ohio coal
mining community during the Depression.
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MAMA LET'S DANCE by Jean
Little . . .I don't know if the book actually comes out and says it
takes place during the Depression, but it sort of sounded like it might
have.  A family of children try to survive on their own after their
mother deserts them to pursue a stage career.
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QUEENIE PEAVY by Robert
Burch is about a girl trying to cope with her father being in jail
during the Depression.
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SPEEDWELL by Ann Turnbull takes matters into
her own hands and races her father's carrier pigeon for the prize money
to help make money for the family during the Depression.

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Bev Rovelli
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