In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolchildren in man

Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, author

First Published in 1996. The Great Depression was not a seamless web of human experience. Disparate images of highs and lows in daily individual experiences pro