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    [2012], c2001., 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: 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.
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    2013, Summerside Call No: FIC WAR    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Daughters of fortune   Volume: bk 3Summary Note: "The Golden Age of Hollywood is in the business of creating stars. Rosie Worth, now starlet Roxie Price, has found everything she's wanted in the glamour of the silver screen. With adoring fans and a studio-mogul husband, she's finally silenced the heartache of the past. Her future shines bright -- until the fated Black Friday when it all comes crashing down. When Roxy loses everything, she finds herself disgraced and penniless. Her only hope is to join forces with Belgian duke Rolfe Van Horne, a longtime film investor. But Rolfe is not what he seems, and he has other plans for Roxy and her movies -- plans to support a growing unrest in Europe, plans that could break her heart and endanger her life..."
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    2010, c2009., Adult, Severn House Call No: MYS MAC   Edition: 1st world ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Morgan Adair arrives in West Briar, a small seaside town on the Long Island shore, in time for her godson's baptism, but when she discovers that Claire, the new mother and Morgan's friend since childhood, is suffering from post-natal depression, a condition exacerbated by the arrival of a girl claiming to be the daughter of Claire's husband, Guy.
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    c2004., Adult, Revell Call No: FIC KEL    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Julia Wortham, counting herself blessed to have been given a farm on which to live with her husband Samuel and two children during the Great Depression, finds her faith tested when her brother-in-law, just out of prison, shows up at their home with a child he claims was fathered by Samuel.
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    c1981., Young Adult, Dial Press Call No: Y TAY    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 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 to survive.
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    c1998., 4.2; 5-8, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Y PEC   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
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    c2010., 5-8, Delacorte Press Call No: Y VAN   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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    c1997., Scholastic Call No: Y HES    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In free verse, 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 Great Depression.
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    2015., Adults, Center Point Large Print Call No: LP ATT   Edition: Large Print edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A novel about a Prohibition-era bad girl turned good inspired by the life of Mazie Phillips, Queen of the Bowery.
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    c1996., Adult, T. Nelson Publishers Call No: FIC THO    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The Tucker and Canfield families are weathering the stock market crash just fine on their Arkansas cotton farm, but the Memphis panic and disaster of October 1, 1931 send them into a tailspin and the troubles seem to keep piling up as they try to hold on to their faith in God.
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    2013., Young Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: YA KAT   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your LibraryClick here to view Series Title: Book 1 in the Teardrop seriesSummary Note: Since Eureka's mother drowned, she wishes she were dead too, but after discovering that an ancient book is more than a story Eureka begins to believe that Ander is right about her being involved in strange things--and in grave danger.
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    c2008., Ages 3-6, Knopf Call No: Y BLU   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
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    c2010., 5.1; Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: Y HOL   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
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    2006., Adult, Algonquin Books Call No: FIC GRU    Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.