THE GREAT DEPRESSION READING LIST
FICTION
Bridgers, Sue Ellen. Home Before Dark: A Novel. New York: Bantam, 1977. Print.
Buechner, Frederick. The Wizard's Tide: A Story. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991. Print.
Burch, Robert. Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Puffin, 1990.
Print.
Currier, Katrina Saltonstall, and Gabhor Utomo. Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain: an Angel
Island Story. Tiburon, CA: Angel Island Association, 2005. Print.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. New York: Delacorte, 1999. Print.
Durbin, William. The Journal of C.J. Jackson: a Dust Bowl Migrant. New York: Scholastic,
2002. Print.
Easton, Kelly. Walking on Air. New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2004. Print.
Gates, Doris. Blue Willow. Jefferson City, MO: Scholastic, 1990. Print.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. London: Frances Lincoln Children's, 2007. Print.
Janke, Katelan. Survival in the Storm: the Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards. New York:
Scholastic, 2002. Print.
Lampman, Evelyn Sibley., and Charles Robinson. Go Up the Road. New York: Atheneum,
1972. Print.
Myers, Anna. Red-Dirt Jessie. New York: Puffin, 1997. Print.
Peck, Richard. A Long Way from Chicago: a Novel in Stories. New York, NY: Puffin, 2000.
Print.
Reeder, Carolyn. Grandpa's Mountain. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002. Print.
Ryan, Pam Mun%u0303oz. Esperanza Rising. New York: Scholastic, 2001. Print.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
Taylor, Mildred D., and Jerry Pinkney. Song of the Trees. New York, NY: Puffin, 2003. Print.
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the Circle Be Unbroken. New York, NY: Puffin, 1991. Print.
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Puffin, 1991. Print.
Thrasher, Crystal. End of a Dark Road. New York: Atheneum, 1982. Print.
Whitmore, Arvella. The Bread Winner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Print.
NON-FICTION
Bernanke, Ben. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2000. Print.
Bolden, Tonya. FDR's Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, 1932-1939. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2010. Print.
Brands, H. W. Traitor to His Class: the Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. New York: Doubleday, 2008. Print.
Feinstein, Stephen. The 1930s: from the Great Depression to the Wizard of Oz. Berkeley
Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Print.
Folsom, Burton W. New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America. New York: Threshold Editions, 2008. Print.
Freedman, Russell. Children of the Great Depression. New York: Clarion, 2005. Print.
Gitlin, Marty. The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945). New York: Weigl, 2008.
Print.
Gup, Ted. A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--revealed the Hidden
History of the Great Depression. New York: Penguin, 2010. Print.
Harrison, A. Cleveland. A Little Rock Boyhood: Growing up in the Great Depression. Little
Rock, AR: Butler Center, 2010. Print.
Haugen, David M., Susan Musser, and Vickey Kalambakal. Perspectives on Modern World
History: the Great Depression. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2010. Print.
Rafferty, Adeline D. Desperate Days: Memories of the Great Depression. Bloomington, IN:
Authorhouse, 2009. Print.
Rothermund, Dietmar. The Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939. London:
Routledge, 1996. Print.
Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression. New York:
HarperCollins, 2007. Print.
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR. New York: Random House, 2007. Print.
Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. New
York: TV, 1999. Print.
Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. New York: Back Bay /Little,
Brown, 2009. Print.
Wormser, Richard. Growing up in the Great Depression. New York: Atheneum, 1994. Print.