Tough times
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Milton Meltzer.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780618874453
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Family life -- Massachusetts -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer. Includes author's note about the Depression.