Depressions Books to Read Free Online

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Moon over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

2010 ★ 4.2

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

1997 ★ 4.1

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939 ★ 3.9

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976 ★ 4.2

Freedom from fear

David M. Kennedy

1999

The adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

1953 ★ 3.8

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

Co-op

Upton Sinclair

1936

Hidden Places

Lynn N. Austin

2001

The cave

Kathleen Karr

1994

Macaroni boy

Katherine Ayres

2004

The Bottoms

Joe R. Lansdale

2000

Not a nickel to spare

Perry Nodelman

2007

Little heathens

Mildred Armstrong Kalish

2008

The Hollow Years

Eugen Joseph Weber

1996

The great depression

David A. Shannon

1960

Bill Peet

1989

Children of the Great Depression

Russell Freedman

2005

Dust Bowl, USA

Brad D. Lookingbill

2001

The Dollhouse Magic

Yona Zeldis McDonough, Diane Palmisciano

2000

The politics of chaos

H. Blair Neatby

1972

The meaning of crisis

James O'Connor

1987

The vanishing moon

Joseph Coulson

2004

Dancing in the dark

Morris Dickstein

2009

La grande peur de 1789

G. Lefebvre, Georges Lefebvre

1970

Dark horse of Woodfield

Florence Hightower

1962

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

Theo Balderston

2003

Potato

Kate Lied

1997 ★ 5.0

Down & out in the Great Depression

1983

Mary Coin

Marisa Silver

2013

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