Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Gr. 5 - 7.

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

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. Gr. 4 - 7.

Red-Dirt Jessie

Anna Myers

Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown. Gr. 4 - 6.