Title: The worst of times
Subtitle: a story of the Great Depression
First published: 2000
Description: In the early 1930s in Chicago, twelve-year-old Petey's family faces poverty and internal strife after his father loses his job, while, at the same time, his wealthy, older cousin takes on the dangerous work of a union organizer.
Subjects: Depressions, Juvenile fiction, Family problems, Fiction, Poverty, Labor unions, History, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Texas, history, revolution, 1835-1836
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago
Time periods: 1929, 20th century