Faith Ringgold - Tar Beach
(NYC; African American; bridges)
Amy Littlesugar - Tree of Hope - il Floyd Cooper
(NYC; African American; theater: Macbeth in Harlem)
Sarah Stewart - Gardener - il David Small
(NYC; bakery; child w/ relatives)
David Adler - The Babe & I - il Terry Widener
(NYC; baseball, newsboys, & apple sellers)
Rent Party Jazz by William Miller il Charlotte
Riley-Webb
(New Orleans; African-American; rent party)
Rural or Dust Bowl:
Leah's Pony - Elizabeth Friedrich il Michael Garland
(Great Plains; farm auction)
Angela Shelf Medearis - Picking Peas for a Penny il
Charles Shaw
(family farm; African American)
Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson "Don't Forget Winona"
illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root
(Okies heading west on Rte. 66 to California; SLJ
recommends pairing w/ Natalie Cole's "Rte 66" on
"Unforgettable" to listen for the title phrase)
The Dust Bowl by David Booth il Karen Reczuch
(Present-day Canada; reminiscences of Depression
farming)
Kate Lied - Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression
il Lisa Campbell Ernst
(Kansas? to Idaho to pick potatoes)
Deborah Hopkinson -Saving Strawberry Farm - il Rachel
Isadora (forthcoming)
Misc:
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie il Kathy
Jakobsen
(US: scenes from Depression & contemporary times)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - Christmas Promise, with
illustrations by David Christiana
(Hoboes; riding trains)
Rocks in His Head, by Carol Otis Hurst, illustrated by
James Stevenson
(backdrop for story? Hurst's father, a rock collector
whose gas station failed during the Depression, copes
w/ labor situation & finds his dream)
Beginning reader/early chapter:
Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner (rural)
Cohen, Miriam - Mimmy & Sophie (NYC)
Cohen, Miriam - Mimmy & Sophie All Around the Town
Non-Fiction:
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs
of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge
Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie
Christensen
Children of the Dust Days by Karen Mueller Coombs
Kids During the Great Depression by Lisa Wroble
19th-Century Girls' Series
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