Chapter Book 10 / Children of the Great Depression

Title	Children of the Great Depression
Author	Russell Freedman
Illustrator
Awards
Publisher	Clarion Books
ISBN	978-0-618-44630-8
Readability Score (GLE = Grade Level Equivalent)	Lexile	1170L
	DRA	n/a
	GLE	6.9
	Guided Reading	X
Genre /      Sub-Genre	Chapter book / General Nonfiction
Theme	Children’s life during the Great Depression
Primary Character	Children and their families
Secondary Characters
Classroom Use	I would use this book for social studies and teaching during the times of the Great Depression.
Summary	Most of the pictures in this book were created by a dedicated band of federal photographers who fanned out across American during the 1930’s and tried to capture with their cameras the heartbreak and hope of the national crisis known as the Great Depression. American citizens fought for scraps of food like animals. The book discusses the  stock crash that led to the great depression. A grocery store list is also available with the cost of things during this time in the book. They list things from corn flakes to Pontiac Coupes along with the average annual earnings during the Great Depression as well. People were denied the greater part of the necessitates of life. One out of every four Americans could not find work and twenty eight percent of the population had no income at all. Children during this time were quitting school to go to work to help out the family. The Dust Bowl also did not help. People who were share cropping and growing for food could no longer do so. The book discusses the children watching films that were starting to come out in theater such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Wizard of Oz and The Lone Ranger. Ten years after the stock market collapsed, there was hope. A New Deal program provided relief for the needy and created hundreds of thousands of jobs for the unemployed and introduced social and economic reforms that have become a lasting part of American life.