Cormier, Robert. Frenchtown Summer. Y FIC Cormier
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

Crew, Linda. Fire on the Wind. Y FIC Crew
The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest fire rages throughout northwestern Oregon and threatens the logging camp where Storie and her family live.

Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, Not Buddy.  Y FIC Curtis //  YPB C
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.

Disher, Garry.  The Bamboo Flute. Y FIC Disher
In a rural Australian community in 1932, twelve-year-old Paul has his predictable life brightened when a drifter helps him make a flute and teaches him how to play it.

Douglas, Kirk.  The Broken Mirror. Y FIC Douglas
After the Nazis destroy his family, twelve-year-old Moishe gives up his Jewish faith, calls himself Danny, and is taken to New York where he tries to make the best of his life in a Catholic orphanage.

Gee, Maurice.  The Fat Man.  Y FIC Gee
In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family as part of a plan to get even for the mistreatment he suffered as a schoolboy.

Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.  YPB H/Y FIC Hesse
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.

Koller, Jackie French.  Nothing to Fear.  Y FIC Koller
When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.

Lee, Harper.  To Kill a Mockingbird.  Y FIC Lee /  PB Lee //  FIC Lee
To kill a mocking bird is an adult novel about two children, Scout and Jem Finch, and their father Atticus, a Southern lawyer appointed to defend a black man on a rape charge. It is a novel about the conscience of a small Alabama town.

Peck, Richard.  A Long Way From Chicago : a novel in stories.  Y FIC Peck // Y PB P
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Peck, Robert Newton.  Nine Man Tree.  Y FIC Peck
In Depression-era Florida, young Yoolee assumes the responsibility of protecting his family from an unspeakable horror stalking the swamplands.

Peck, Robert Newton. A Part of the Sky.  Y FIC Peck
When 14-year-old Rob's father dies, he is left to care for his mother and aunt, and to run his family's small, struggling farm. Times are hard, but Rob is determined that he won't give the farm up during the Depression.

Porter, Tracey.  Treasures in the Dust.  J FIC Porter
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.

Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows.  Y PB R/ Y Fic Rawls
The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930's.

Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.  Y FIC Taylor/Y PB T
A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

9/3/04