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Cannon, Bettie Waddell A BELLSONG FOR SARAH RAINES Surrounded by the warmth of new-found relatives and friends in a small Kentucky town, fourteen-year-old Sarah learns to cope with the sadness of her father's suicide in Detroit during the Depression and finds a way to celebrate his life. Corcoran, Barbara THE SKY IS FALLING In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job and Annah is sent to live with her aunt on a New Hampshire island where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodi. Hesse, Karen OUT OF THE DUST 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. Howe, Norma THE GAME OF LIFE A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression. Ryan, Pam ESPERANZA RISING Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Van Raven, Pieter A TIME OF TROUBLES Having crossed the country with his father during the Depression to find work in California, fourteen-year-old Roy encounters cruel exploitation by the Growers' Association who take advantage of the desperate, impoverished people pouring into the state.
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