| 1914 - 1937 (WORLD
WAR I / DEPRESSION) |
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| Baer, Edith |
A
Frost in the Night |
| In 1932, a young Jewish girl and her family
experience the changes occurring in Germany. |
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| Bornstein, Ruth |
Butterflies
and Lizards, Beryl and Me |
| In 1934, 11-year-old Charlotte and her mother
move to tiny Valley Junction, Missouri, where Charlotte
befriends an eccentric old woman in spite of her mother's
and others' warnings. |
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| Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker |
One-of-a-Kind
Mallie |
| Living in Indiana during World War I, 10-year-old
Mallie longs to be seen as different from her identical
twin and finds an example of individuality in the gypsies
who moved into her community. |
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| Buchanan, Jane |
Hank's
Story |
| Hank, having come west on an orphan train
to live with a disagreeable couple on a farm in Nebraska,
tries to endure his miserable existence and thinks about
running away, as his older brother did. |
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| Cochrane, Patricia |
Purely
Rosie Pearl |
| Twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl and her family
face difficulties as they find work picking fruit in California
during the Great Depression. |
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| Corcoran, Barbara |
The
Sky Is Falling |
| In Boston during the early days of the Great
Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt
end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is
sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where
she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodie. |
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| 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. |
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| DeFelice, Cynthia |
Nowhere
to Call Home |
| When her father kills himself after losing
his money in the stock market crash, 12-year-old Frances,
now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight
train and live the life of a hobo. |
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| De Young, C. Coco |
A
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt |
| Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class
assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking
for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression.
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| Doucet, Sharon |
Fiddle
Fever |
| In 1914, 14-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels
stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and,
after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, decides
that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making
his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes. |
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| Dowell, Frances |
Dovey
Coe |
| When accused of murder in her North Carolina
mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed 12-year-old
girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including
her deaf brother. |
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| Fritz, Jean |
Homesick:
My Own Story |
| A young girl's life in China in 1925 is
told based on actual events in the author's life. |
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| Geras, Adele |
The
Girls in the Velvet Frame |
| In Jerusalem just before World War I five
sisters send their photograph to a New York newspaper
in hope of contacting their brother from whom they have
not heard for one year. |
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| Henry, Marguerite |
Black
Gold |
| The story of Black Gold, the winner of the
1924 Kentucky Derby, is based on actual events. |
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| Hesse, Karen |
Letters
from Rifka |
| A young girl writes letters to her cousin
describing her family's journey from Russia to America
in 1919. |
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| Hesse, Karen |
Out
of the Dust |
| In a series of poems, 15-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. |
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| Karr, Kathleen |
Man
of the Family |
| During the 1920s, life for Istvan, the eldest
child of a Hungarian-American family, holds both joy and
sadness. |
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| Kerr, Judith |
When
Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
| In 1933, a 9-year-old girl and her family
are forced to flee Germany and secretly go to Switzerland
where they learn how to deal with new languages and situations. |
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| Lenski, Lois |
Texas
Tomboy |
| Charlotte, or Charlie Boy as she would rather
be called, grows up on a Texas ranch in the 1920s. |
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| McKay, Sharon |
Charlie
Wilcox |
| Charlie, born in Newfoundland weighing two
pounds and with a club foot, is destined to go to sea.
He'll follow his father and his uncles and make the family
proud. |
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| Meyer, Carolyn |
Anastasia,
the Last Grand Duchess |
| A novel in diary form in which the youngest
daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged
life her family led up until the time of World War I and
the tragic events that befell them. |
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| Mukerji, Dhan Ghopal |
Gay-Neck:
The Story of a Pigeon |
| The story of the training of a carrier pigeon
and its service during the First World War, revealing
the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the
housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains,
and on the French battlefield. |
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| Parkinson, Siobhan |
Kathleen:
The Celtic Knot |
| Twelve-year-old Dubliner Kathleen Delaney
is given the chance to take Irish dancing lessons in 1937
and discovers she has a talent for it. |
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| Porter, Tracey |
Treasures
in the Dust |
| Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend, Violet,
tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust
storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.
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| Rabe, Berniece |
Hiding
Mr. McMulty |
| In 1937 in southern Missouri, 11-year-old
Rass, son of a proud sharecropper, proves his worth when
a flood destroys his family's home and forces his best
friend, an elderly black man, into hiding from the Ku
Klux Klan. |
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| Ransom, Candice |
Fire
in the Sky |
| More than losing at marbles, worrying about
his relatives and the Nazis in Germany, or hearing his
favorite radio hero Jack Armstrong, 9-year old Stenny
Green is focused on getting to see the Hindenburg when
it lands near their home in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in
1937. |
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| Reeder, Carolyn |
Grandpa's
Mountain |
| During the Depression, 11-year-old Carrie
spends a summer at her grandparents' home in the Blue
Ridge Mountains while her grandfather opposes the establishment
of a national park. |
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| Ritter, John |
Choosing
Up Sides |
| In 1921, 13-year-old Luke finds himself
torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming
to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition
is evil and must be overcome. |
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| Skurzynski, Gloria |
Goodbye,
Billy Radish |
| In 1917, as the United States enters World
War I, the friendship between two boys changes. |
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| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
Cat
Running |
| In California, during the Depression, 11-year-old
Cat encounters the issues of poverty and prejudice when
she becomes involved with a homeless family from Texas. |
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| Tamar, Erika |
The
Midnight Train Home |
| When their mother can no longer care for
them, 11-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans'
Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre,
a talented singer, finds a different type of family when
she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe. |
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| Taylor, Mildred |
Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Cassie and her brothers do not understand
the discrimination and prejudice they face as an African-American
family living in Mississippi during the 1930s. |
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| Taylor, Mildred |
Let
the Circle Be Unbroken(sequel to Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry |
| The Logan children learn about pride and
self-respect to survive against the discrimination and
difficult times growing up in rural Mississippi in 1935.
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| Taylor, Mildred |
Song
of the Trees |
| During the Depression, the Logan family
opposes a dishonest man trying to cut lumber on their
property. |
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| Taylor, Sydney |
All-of-a-Kind
Family Uptown |
| The family has happy and anxious times as
the United States enters the war and Ella's boyfriend
joins the Army. |
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| Taylor, Sydney |
Ella
of All-of-a-Kind Family |
| Ella, the oldest of six children, has no
privacy when Jules comes home from the Army and everyone
wants to see him. (See the 1866-1913
list for more books in this series.) |
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| Uchida, Yoshiko |
A
Jar of Dreams |
| Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in Berkeley,
California, in the 1930s during the Depression and a time
of prejudice against the Japanese-Americans. |
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| Yolen, Jane |
Children
of the Wolf |
In 1920 in India, two girls are found to
have been raised by wolves and need to be taught human
behaviors.
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