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Children of the Great Depression
By Freedman, Russell
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61844-630-8
- Publisher
- Clarion
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2005
Gr 4-8 Few authors are as well suited as Freedman to present a clear and understandable outline of this period. His prose is straightforward and easily comprehensible, making sense of even the complexities of the stock-market crash. The use of primary sources is outstanding. This is a book told by chorus, featuring the voices of thos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
"Though we are poor," wrote a young North Carolinian to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, "we try to hold off embarrassment, for you know it is 'hard to be broke, and harder to admit it.'" During the Great Depression it was hard for youngsters to attend school and find work, food, and clothes; they also encountered hardship riding the rails and escaping the Dust Bowl. Freedman never minimizes this bleakness, but he also addresses childhood diversions of the Depression, such as movies and music. The pictu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
