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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932

(Dear America)

Kathryn Lasky

3.89 · Rating details · 2,846 ratings · 179 reviews

At the age of twelve, Minnie Swift is living through one of the toughest times in America's history, The Great Depression. She keeps a detailed diary over the span of one Christmas month. Reflecting the sadness but also the optimism that characterized the time, this is an intimate portrait of a Midwestern family's days and nights, ups and downs, triumphs and losses. It's t ...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Jenn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: christmas-tales, winter-challenge-2012, diaries

This diary of Minnie Swift at Christmastime during the great depression was amazing. This book took place in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1932. To stretch food the mother would add flour and cheese, they closed alot of the rooms in the house to save money. The girls made their own clothes and special Christmas gifts. With not having alot of money they went to see movies, ice skated, sled rides and listened to Buck Rogers and Charlie Chan on the radio for entertainment. Times were hard back then but ...more

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Mar 06, 2017 Kathy rated it really liked it

I read Christmas After All based on the great review from my smart and talented niece. She really enjoyed this book and I can understand why. This is the story of Minnie Swift who is an 11 year old girl living in Indianapolis during the Depression. Minnie's diary details the development of Shantytowns in the parks, how her cousin Willie Faye came to live with them, the effect of unemployment on her family and the community. Since these horrific events are told through a child's eye, suicide and ...more

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Mar 21, 2014 Beverly rated it it was amazing

Hoover became President in 1929. Industry and the Stock Market were booming. October 29, 1929, Like Humpty Dumpty, the Walls Came Crashing Down!!! On "Black Tuesday", stockholders lost $40,000,000,000 and the Great Depression was in full swing. By 1932, banks were closing daily and lines at the soup kitchens grew. People blamed Hoover, when in fact, the panic was caused by Wall Street. Shantytowns were called Hoovervilles, newspapers used as blankets were Hoover Blankets, empty pockets turned in ...more

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Feb 21, 2017 Lily rated it it was amazing

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Sep 22, 2019 Lauren Robertson rated it it was amazing

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A girlhood favorite. My mom gave me this book for Christmas when I was 13 and I’ve read it every Christmas since. I can’t wait to share it with my own daughter. ❤️

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Dec 27, 2009 Ana Mardoll rated it liked it

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Christmas After All (The Great Depression) / 0-439-21943-4

"Christmas After All" brings us both the best and worst views of the American Great Depression, showing us the kindness and strength of the people who lived through this difficult period, but never holding back the despair and troubles of the homeless, the suicidal, and the starving.

There's a great deal of good to be had here. Minnie's rather large family is hit badly by the Depression and the layouts and business closures. They are furth Christmas After All (The Great Depression) / 0-439-21943-4

"Christmas After All" brings us both the best and worst views of the American Great Depression, showing us the kindness and strength of the people who lived through this difficult period, but never holding back the despair and troubles of the homeless, the suicidal, and the starving.

There's a great deal of good to be had here. Minnie's rather large family is hit badly by the Depression and the layouts and business closures. They are further burdened by the arrival of an orphaned distant relation, who is the same age as Minnie. Minnie is shocked to find that her new "sister", fresh from the dust bowl, has never heard of "Buck Rogers" or Greta Garbo, yet she learns that her 'ignorant' cousin has much to teach her, in terms of faith, hope, and love. As Minnie's family visits the local shantytowns to give food and toys to the less fortunate (and to mend their tire 'houses' so that they won't collapse and kill the occupants), Lasky paints a bleak and stark view of the Depression, relieved only by charity and human kindness.

"Christmas After All" is not, however, without minor faults. The diarist's family is just a little too special, too precocious to be believable. Adelaide (or "Lady") is a rebellious flapper who goes to a private girl's school (how do they afford it?) to curb her behavior. She is terrible at her schoolwork, but she can sew Hollywood fashions (and some of her own designs!) in sheer minutes (where do they buy the material?) and everything she makes is stunning, professional, and cutting edge. Minnie's older sisters are lovely and smart and study abroad in Europe, when the family can afford it. Minnie's orphaned cousin can draw advanced pencil drawings of just about anything and creates professional-grade picture books for Christmas presents. Minnie's brother, on the other hand, is a boy genius who can make anything out of wires and capacitors and - later - becomes the subject of her father's radio drama. Of course her father can write radio dramas - he just needed to be laid off from Accounting to live the dream. And Minnie looks just like Amelia Earhart and - of course - grows up to become a pilot in the Air Force, courtesy of the Epilogue. All this Mary Sue-ism is a bit cloying, but the reader recognizes that Lasky is likely trying to soften the bleakness of the Depression for young readers. Older readers, however, may find it a little too sticky sweet for consumption.

Older readers may also be distressed at the concept of finances in this book. I had to check the cover several times to reassure myself that, yes, this book is set during the Great Depression. Oh, the shantytowns are here, and the layoffs, and the bad food (no money for meat at the dinner table), and the general dread and fear. Yet why does Minnie's family have money to go to the movies two or three times a week? Why are they buying capacitors and clothing material like it's going out of style? How can they afford a private school to "straighten out" the antics of a girl whose most rebellious behavior appears to be bleaching her hair (and where did she come up with the money for that?)? And when the father appears to have abandoned them when he's really off pitching a radio drama that will make the family very well off (he didn't tell anyone because he didn't want to get their hopes up), only to return unexpectedly just in time for Christmas with full stockings for everyone, well, let's just say that the story feels too contrived and forced.

This isn't a bad book and I recommend it heartily as good historical fantasy for children. But unlike most of the other Dear America books, I doubt many adults will find much here except a quick, saccharine read before returning firmly to reality. Whether or not that is a good thing is entirely a personal choice, I think.

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Dec 05, 2007 **♥bEcCa♥** rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: People who like history or like reading about personal experiences and about life.

The book "Christmas After All," was a very good book. I felt that the book deserved a five star rating. This book is about an eleven year old girl named Minnie Swift who tells about her life in 1932 during the Great Depression. The Swifts invite a young girl named Willie Faye to stay with them. This story is mainly about Willie Faye helping the Swift family through some tough times, while the Swift family helps Willie Faye as well. I personally love the plot of this book. I felt like the author The book "Christmas After All," was a very good book. I felt that the book deserved a five star rating. This book is about an eleven year old girl named Minnie Swift who tells about her life in 1932 during the Great Depression. The Swifts invite a young girl named Willie Faye to stay with them. This story is mainly about Willie Faye helping the Swift family through some tough times, while the Swift family helps Willie Faye as well. I personally love the plot of this book. I felt like the author was trying to teach people about things that really happened during the Great Depression. The main characters in this book would be Minnie Swift, Willie Faye. Also Minnie’s Mama and Papa. Also Minnie’s Brother, Ozzie. Along with Minnie’s sisters, Clementine, Gwendolyn, and Lady.

The genre for this book is historical fiction. Personally I find horror or scary books to be more my style of what books I read. But after reading this book I feel that I am going to read more books like this one. The mood in this book would probably be somewhere between sad and happy. This book goes through many ups and downs. So it’s hard to exactly say what kind of mood this book is. I feel that the author’s tone was to show you what really happened during the Great Depression and what life was like, and to try to picture yourself as if you were really there. The theme of this book would definitely be survival and family bonds. This book really illustrates the importance of family relationships and surviving together.

The kind of person who would enjoy this book would probably be someone who likes to learn about history or someone who likes to read about personal experiences and about life. What I like about this book is that it really tried to make you feel like you were there. It made you want to keep reading and not put the book down. One thing I didn’t really like about the book would be that sometimes I would get confused with the characters. There are so many main characters that their hard to keep track of who’s who. Overall I felt that “Christmas After All,” was a great book. At first you might think that a book about history would be boring. But I can assure you that this book is far from that. As I said before I gave “Christmas After All” a five star rating.
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Nov 08, 2015 Kelsey Hanson rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction

This is a good story to read around Christmas. The Depression was one of the worst economic times in American history, but it is still a story that many can relate to today. While no where near as bad as the depression, many people are still struggling financially and this book shows that no matter how bad things can get, you have to keep believing that they will get better. This book is more than just a Christmas book and does have a lot of great info about The Great Depression and the Dust Bow ...more

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Jan 09, 2010 Betty Jones rated it it was amazing

Well, it wasn't Appalachia, but is was Depression Era, so I checked it our of Oakland's Library (Thanks, Marge for displaying it!) It's a children's/young teen book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Guess I like reading about how folks coped during that terrible time. Maybe get pointers for our current economic condition!! ...more

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Apr 01, 2014 Anne rated it it was amazing

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This is one of the best in the Dear America series. The writing is witty and crispy, the story is rich and wonderful, and heartwarming for year round. It's especially marvelous that Minnie Swift is based on the author's own aunt. What an exciting pleasure to write about one's own family! ...more

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Feb 25, 2019 Angie Fehl rated it it was amazing

As a holiday edition to the Dear America epistolary series of books, Christmas After All tells the story of Minnie Swift, who shares her experiences of The Great Depression starting the day after Thanksgiving 1932. How does one still have a merry holiday season while the country at large shoulders unbelievable financial strain? It's not easy, but Minnie's family has their ways.

Within the Swift family, we (through these diary entries) get to know Minnie's siblings: Gwendolyn, 20; Clementine, 17; As a holiday edition to the Dear America epistolary series of books, Christmas After All tells the story of Minnie Swift, who shares her experiences of The Great Depression starting the day after Thanksgiving 1932. How does one still have a merry holiday season while the country at large shoulders unbelievable financial strain? It's not easy, but Minnie's family has their ways.

Within the Swift family, we (through these diary entries) get to know Minnie's siblings: Gwendolyn, 20; Clementine, 17; Adelaide aka "Lady", 16; and little brother Ozzie, 9. If you thought the house was already sounding crowded, Minnie's parents also take in orphaned female cousin Willie Faye, an undersized survivor of the Dust Bowl. Both Willie and Minnie are eleven years old, but there's one entry that describes how upset Minnie was to learn how her school placed Willie a couple grades lower with the 4th graders after poor testing results.

A neat bookish link written into the Swift family: they happen to live in the same neighborhood as novelist Booth Tarkington (the same street, even). Minnie writes of her mother's friendship with Booth's wife.

Minnie writes of how the family makes it a point to sleep on the covered porch to toughen themselves for each year's winter, when they know they will struggle to keep the house sufficiently heated. Minnie's diary entries document the lives and hardships of friends, neighbors and extended family, their heartbreaks, depression over the sense of being overwhelmed... Minnie even touches upon the darker moments of the era, such as people abandoning family or even deciding to commit suicide, all in a misguided attempt to alleviate some of the burden from the family finances. Not to worry though, these books are geared toward a middle grade audience, so the topic is only briefly and gently addressed via vague references. There is some serious sadness though when we learn Willie's history and she shares how she sat with her mother's body for two days before the coroner came around.... remember that Willie is only eleven!

Reading this story, you get the impression that the family was one that was formerly well-to-do. They live in a four bedroom house with a parlor, covered porch, there's mention of African American servants, the Swift's eldest daughter, Gwendolyn, attending Wellsley College prior to the start of The Depression. Now, Minnie's father is employed as an accountant at an ironyard. The family is grateful to be one of the families that can still rely on a steady income, naturally, but even so, they're certainly not immune to at least some struggles. While the family still seems to be able to afford luxuries such as new shoes and birthday presents for friends, we also see Minnie's father either spending more and more hours away from the family or home, but holed up in his home office.

Though the era can be a sad one to write a story around, Lasky gives readers the gift of comedic relief in the form of Minnie's wonderful sense of humor! Just when you think the atmosphere of the story is getting a little heavy, Minnie will write in one of her quips to give you a much needed giggle, such as her descriptions of her mother's attempts at making the pantry stretch through a long line of aspics and au gratin dishes, the "vomitous" textures and flavors of those experiments... but dishes they ate anyway because it kept food in the bellies.

The Swift family is actually inspired by the story of author Kathryn Lasky's own maternal grandparents. She even gives the parents the same names as her grandparents -- Sam & Belle. Lasky shares the story in detail in the supplemental information section at the back of the book where you can also find some pretty cool photos of the family, as well as a recipe for the Molasses Crinkles Minnie mentions in her diary.

All in all a wonderfully heartwarming, highly readable and cozy holiday story that promotes the importance of valuing family and small blessings! ...more

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Feb 24, 2019 Lauren Ellington rated it it was amazing

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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift by Kathryn Lasky follows the life of twelve year-old, Minnie Swift and her family through the Great Depression during the month of Christmas. Minnie will immediately capture your heart and take you into the mind of a growing young woman that just wants to have a normal life despite all of the hardships her family is facing. However, her life takes a spin when a distant relative, Willie Faye joins her family and begins to show the tr ...more

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Jul 15, 2018 kaotickitten rated it really liked it

Another book in the Dear America series.

This is written in a journal style like all the other Dear America’s.

I love historical fiction, and diary style makes you feel like your reading a personal account.

This on has a young girl at the age of eleven dealing with the depression. It is from the stand point of a upper middle class. You hear all the stories of the poorest all the time not the middle class. Which makes this one insightful.

You can see and feel that there was hope. Yet when hope gets ...more

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Jan 06, 2019 Kelly rated it liked it

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Dec 03, 2018 Natalie rated it really liked it

Shelves: the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year, read-in-2018, middle-grade, cq-2018, christmas-mg

A sweet and heartwarming book about Christmas during the depression of the 1930s. I loved the information about the author at the end of the book, and that she based the characters on her relatives who lived through the depression. Willie Faye was so sweet. I loved her optimism. I also like how inventive the family was with Christmas gifts for each other.

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May 30, 2018 Cate rated it it was amazing

This book, like all the others in the series, was great! It's near impossible NOT to like these! ...more

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Jan 07, 2018 Chelsea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-read-in-2018, favorites

5 STARS

I can’t believe this is the first “Dear America” book I’ve ever read, but I can foresee reading many more in the near future!

Minnie’s story was set during the Great Depression in Indianapolis, IN. I learned some interesting facts about Indiana’s state history as well as what the times were like for those trying to survive during the 1930s.

For those of you who have children who are interested in reading this book, (view spoiler) ...more

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Jul 03, 2015 Priscilla Herrington rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Christmas After All is a bit different from the usual format of the books in the Dear America series: Instead of covering a full year, it covers only a month - the month before Christmas, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Author Kathryn Lasky explains that the story and characters are based on her own family, in the time before she was born when her grandparents and their children lived in a large home in Indianapolis and - yes, they kept chickens, just as the fictitious Swift family did.

This story is p Christmas After All is a bit different from the usual format of the books in the Dear America series: Instead of covering a full year, it covers only a month - the month before Christmas, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Author Kathryn Lasky explains that the story and characters are based on her own family, in the time before she was born when her grandparents and their children lived in a large home in Indianapolis and - yes, they kept chickens, just as the fictitious Swift family did.

This story is packed with details that aren't always covered in accounts of the Depression era. As the diary begins, the Swift family are making do, doing without, and otherwise surviving the Depression. Mr. Swift is employed, although his hours are reduced, so the Swift family are doing better than the typical subject of Depression accounts.

An orphan, Willie Faye Darling, is sent to the Swifts after her mother died. Her mother had been a connection of Minnie's mother's; her story is of the Dust Bowl as it had affected Heart's Bend, Texas and the rest of the Southwest. While the Depression was a time of great need and many people were reduced to hopelessness, it was also a time of great generosity. The Swifts don't hesitate to add this little girl to their family. At various times, Minnie and her sisters and their friends take food to the shantytown where the destitute have cobbled together shelter.

Because the story is set in Indianapolis, Minnie's older sister Gwen has left college to work at the Bobbs-Merrill publishing giant. This was the publisher of The Joy of Cooking (which Gwen had a hand in editing) and also of many children's books including Raggedy Ann and the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

One of the main themes of this story is the important of the radio. This period is still called the Golden Age of Radio, when Americans gathered around their radios to listen to programs like Jack Benny, The Shadow and Buck Rogers in the Twenty-fifth Century. Movies were also popular, for those who could afford the ten cent admission, and girls of the time made scrapbooks of cut-out magazine pictures of their favorite movie stars. But it was radio that unified most of the country, and the frequent references to favorite shows will satisfy the nostalgia of older readers while opening younger ones to a glimpse of the time before television and live-streaming.

The ending of this book, while very satisfying, may seem a little too good to be true; however, based on the author's notes at the end, perhaps it is not! ...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Luis Gonzalez rated it it was amazing

Christmas After All is the diary of 12 year old Minnie Swift detailing her families experiences during the Great Depression. Everyone in America was affected, poor and rich alike. The Swift family was more fortunate than others because the father maintained his job longer than most but after a while lost it. In her diary Minnie Swift retells her daily struggles leading up to Christmas, 1932. Willie Faye, an orphan moves in with the Swifts after her parents die. She and Minnie become the best of ...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Patricia Holland rated it really liked it

Response: Even though the times are tough this is a very humorous and heartwarming book. I read several books from this series when I was in middle school and absolutely loved them. I was afraid that I would not like them as much now that I am older, but that was not the case. This is a great book for young girls. While looking for this book I found this series for boys as well. Instead of diaries written from a girl’s perspective they are journals written from a boy’s perspective. Even though t ...more

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May 11, 2013 Lauren rated it really liked it

Shelves: history, american-history, fiction, historical-fiction, american-literature

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Dec 01, 2014 Whitney rated it it was ok

When I was in elementary school I loved the Dear America series. I mainly read ones that were centered around civil/WWWs and as this was one of the happier ones in the series, and I have always preferred dark not-so-happy-ever-after endings, Christmas After All never made it to my bedside table. This installment was a cute Christmas read I think I would have enjoyed it more if I was still in elementary school. It felt like the author was aiming for a Little Women Christmas and didn't quite succe ...more

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Feb 11, 2014 Abby Hagan rated it really liked it

I read the book Christmas After All, I thought if was a pretty good book. It is about a girl name Minnie Swift, and her family going through the Great Depression. In the beginning, a girl named Willie Faye arrives at the train station, she is Minnie's mom's cousin. They let her stay at their house, during the Great Depression. The Swift family, thankfully still has a job in the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time when everybody is not doing too great, and a lot of people lost ther ...more

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Jan 15, 2016 Sarah Crawford rated it really liked it

This is the story of Minnie, a young girl growing up in the midst of the Great Depression, a time when about a third of the population was out of work, banks closed and people lost their money, and the stock market crashed.

The story describes what's going on where Minnie lives and how things are affecting her family and friends. What complicates matters immediately is the presence of Willie Faye comes to live with them. Things get worse when one of the neighbor's father commits suicide and more ...more

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Apr 19, 2016 Nuvia Ramirez added it

This little family that lives at Indianapolis, Indiana was going through the Great Depression in 1932. The Swift family adopted a little girl Willie Faye which was from Heart's Bend, Texas, was left alone at her house because both her parents died. Willie Faye had no idea what certain things were at first, she had trouble with things but then she got use to it. Well as I was saying the Swift family was having trouble because of The Great Depression banks and jobs were being closed. A few days be ...more

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Apr 01, 2009 Rebecca rated it it was amazing

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It's late November, 1932, and the entire nation is feeling the effects of the Great Depression. Christmas is nearing, but for many families, it will be a joyless holiday. Eleven-year-old Minnie Swift fears that will be the case for her family. Although her father still has a job, he hasn't been making much money. Life changes for the whole family, however, when Minnie's orphaned cousin, Willie Faye, comes to live with the family. Eleven-year-old Willie Faye is the same age as Minnie, but she is ...more

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Feb 07, 2011 Brynhd96 rated it it was amazing

The Great depression was the worst period of american history, from Hovervilles to Soup Kitchens, Hoboes to Lack of money. Minnie Swift is a 12-year old girl from Indianapolis, Indiana. She explains much of the month of december from Thanksgiving to Christmas. She Describes things from the Auto Company closing, to papa leaving their house, and delivering things to the Hooverville (They Called it Curtisville Bottom after the vice president)

I think this book is very great, because it is about a 1 ...more

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Apr 22, 2014 H rated it liked it

This book took place in the Great Depression in America. There is a young girl, Minnie Swift and her family who are all trying their best to get through the hard times. They all do their daily jobs and go to school and one day they received a letter from their cousin who was coming to live with them! This was a great surprise to the family as they could barley pay for their own children. I thought that this book was just ok; I really liked some parts of the book because a lot of action was happe ...more

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Nov 14, 2017 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-aloud, 1930s-great-depression

9yo and I enjoyed this as read-aloud. There were several LOL moments for my daughter. But, there were sad parts for sure. I appreciated the historical details that really brought this 1932 story to life. We had already studied the Depression and Dust Bowl, so there were points of reference for her. I liked each of the main characters and their various personalities. Mom and Dad were a bit flat, but the five kids were the central characters and they were fleshed enough for us. It's not a whole-pi ...more

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Jan 15, 2010 Amer Ibric rated it it was ok

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This book was about a famil that lived in the time of the great deppresion. People were very poor and had no money. as a matter of fact the whole country of america didn't have any money! This was very bad for our nation and this was very bad for our nation because we had no money for anything. This book explained why it was bad for the depression.

I would connect this book to the people that suffered alot just like Minnie Swift and her family. The great depresstion toke many lives and was very ...more

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Kathryn Lasky

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Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.

She was born June 24, 1944, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Massachusetts.

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