by David A. Adler
The Babe & I
Published 1999 by Gulliver Books
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While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. Full-color illustrations.

by Riki Levinson
Boys Here--Girls There
Published 1993 by Dutton Books
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by Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy
Published 1999 by Delacorte Press
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:

1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.

2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.

3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!

Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression. Once again Christopher Paul Curtis, author of the award-winning novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, takes readers on a heartwarming and unforgettable journey.

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Cat Running
Published 1994 by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
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by Linda Oatman High
A Christmas Star
Published 1997 by Holiday House
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by Ann Warren Turner
Dust for Dinner
Published 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers
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by C. Coco de Young
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Published 1999 by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
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by David A. Adler
Mama Played Baseball
Published 2003 by Gulliver Books
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Featured in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own, " this is the compelling story of a young girl growing up during World War II, whose father is away fighting in the war and whose mother becomes a baseball player for the All-American Girls Professional League. Full color.

by Valerie Tripp
Meet Kit: An American Girl
Published 2000 by American Girl
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Growing up during the Great Depression of the 1930s, nine-year-old Kit Kittredge longs for a big story for her daily newspaper for Dad--that is, until she's faced with really bad news. When Mother's friends lose their home and come to stay with her family, it's nothing but trouble for Kit. Part of the "American Girls" series.

by Cynthia C. DeFelice
Nowhere to Call Home
Published 1999 by Farrar Straus Giroux
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by Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust
Published 1997 by Hyperion Books for Children
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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.

by Kate Lied
Potato
Published 1997 by National Geographic Society
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by William Miller
Rent Party Jazz
Published 2001 by Lee & Low Books
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With the help of a jazz musician, an African-American boy living in New Orleans in the 1930s raises money to pay the rent. From the author of "Richard Wright and the Library Card". Full-color illustrations.

by Mildred D. Taylor
Song of the Trees
Published 1975 by Dial Books
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In this beautifully-written first book by Mildred Taylor, Cassie loves to listen to the trees. But can she save the old forest from being turned into lumber?

by Amy Littlesugar
Tree of Hope
Published 1999 by Philomel Books
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by Rosemary Wells
Wingwalker
Published 2002 by Hyperion Books
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Wells waltzes readers through the stubbly cornfields of a lost America--a land of small farms, distant radio music, and county fairs where couples danced on the wings of planes. Full color.