Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 (Dear America Series)

by Kathryn Lasky

Hardcover, 2001

Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), History Life, & Culture in the Americas

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (2001), Edition: 1st, 190 pages

Description

In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.

Subjects

Awards

Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 2005)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2004)
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2002)

Language

English

Original language

English

Pages

190

Physical description

190 p.; 7.75 inches

ISBN

0439219434 / 9780439219433

DDC/MDS

813.6

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