When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides

A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so re

During the "Great Depression, " a family seeking work finds employment for two weeks digging potatoes in Idaho.

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas,

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

During the Depression, three young sisters get one baby doll for Christmas and must find a way to share.

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes