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Depressions - United States - 1929-1933 -- fiction

When the Whipporwill Calls

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By Candice Ransom

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A Blue Ridge Mountain family is displaced to the flatlands by the creation of the Shenandoah National Park.

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Grandpa's Mountain

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By Carolyn Reeder

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During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national park.

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Bud, Not Buddy

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By Christopher Paul Curtis

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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. J Fic Cur
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