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Magic tree house volume 36
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Español
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The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
"Merlín tiene otra misión para Annie y Jack: rescatar a un unicornio mágico en Nueva York. Pero los pequeños aventureros llegan allí en uno de los períodos más difíciles de la historia de la ciudad: la Gran Depresión. Y justo en medio de una tormenta de nieve que amenaza con volverse más fuerte. ¿Dónde encontrarán Annie y Jack...
87) Starting over
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American adventure (Barbour) volume 43
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English
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With the Depression continuing, the Harringtons are forced to leave Minneapolis after Steven and Isabel's father loses his job. Together, they travel to Seattle in search of a better life.
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Secrets of the manor volume 6
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English
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"The Great Depression is raging across America and even the Vandermeers have fallen on hard times. In an attempt to stay afloat, Kay and her parents have started living in the guest cottage and getting Vandermeer Manor ready for renters. Money starts coming in when a mysterious man purchases some family heirlooms, but questions are raised when it comes to light that the wealthy benefactor has knowingly paid more money for the heirlooms than they are...
94) Dragon road
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
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English
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In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
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Italiano
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
96) Empty places
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English
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"It is 1932, in Harlan County, Kentucky. Times are tough in the mining community, especially for thirteen-year-old Adabel Cutler's family. As they fight to survive, Adabel has to figure out her own identity while dealing with her volatile father, her dutiful sister, her defiant brother, and her mother's disappearance, which she can't seem to remember."--Amazon.
97) Lejos del polvo
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Español
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Exquisitely written, this Newbery Medal-winner is a poetic, compelling, and often melancholy novel of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression.
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In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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中文(繁體)
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The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression. . . . Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence despite the certainty of outer defeat."
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"Bud Caldwell, the protaganist of Christopher Paul Curtis's novel Bud, Not Buddy, is on a mission to find the man he believes to be his father--bandleader Herman E. Calloway. In this nonfiction companion to the popular novel, you'll explore what real life was like during the Depression-era setting of the book, who the real jazz musicians of the era were, and what life was like living in a cardboard town called a Hooverville" --
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