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Author:

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon, author.

Title:

The Great Depression : experience the 1930s from the Dust Bowl to the New Deal / Marcia Amidon Lusted ; illustrated by Tom Casteel.

Publisher:

Nomad Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vii, 120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Depressions--1929--United States--Juvenile literature.
Nineteen thirties--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--1933-1945--Juvenile literature.
New Deal, 1933-1939--Juvenile literature.
United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Casteel, Tom, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-117) and index.

Contents:

Timeline -- A turbulent time -- Boom to bust -- Not a job in sight -- A new deal -- A dusty disaster -- Quintuplets, gangsters, and monopoly -- Inventing the world of tomorrow -- War and recovery.

Summary:

Introduces the Great Depression, inviting readers to investigate its causes, offering insights into daily life and how the economics of the time shaped politics, and discussing Roosevelt's New Deal.

Series:

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ISBN:

161930340X
9781619303409
1619303361
9781619303362

OCLC:

(OCoLC)913304827

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

3HSX245 -- Denison High School (Denison)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)