The Great Depression for kids
Subtitle: hardship and hope in 1930s America
By: Cheryl Mullenbach
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781613730515
Subjects: Depressions; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Explains the factors that led to the Great Depression, describing the social conditions of children during that time period and the movies and other forms of entertainment that helped distract people until the recovery of the late 1930s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: the mystery of the migrant family; title: The 1920s: roaring toward a crash; title: America looks to its leaders for help; title: Broken cities and bread lines-urban life; title: Droughts, dust storms, and pest plagues-rural life; title: Growing up in tough times; title: Helping hands and a "New Deal" awaken hope; title: Finding fun in gloomy times; title: Epilogue: hardship and hope.