Boom+or+Bust

Boom or Bust - the Economy
__**Fiction**__

Hesse, Karen. **//Out of the Dust.//** Scholastic, 1997. This is the story of 14 year old billie Jo and her ordeals and losses during the Great Depression in Oklahoma. Billie Jo must become strong in the face of dust storms and the distruction, both physical and emotional, that the storms cause or she will will be swallowed up in their wake. Grades 5 - 8. Recommended by Bryan H.

Ingold, Jeanette. **Hitch**. Harcourt, Inc., 2005. In this coming of age story set in the Great Depression, Moss Trawnley, a seventeen year old, loses his job, is arrested for vagrancy and joins the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to avoid more arrests. The work is hard and there is corruption that leads to Moss taking a leadership role. The story is engaging and it gives valuable information about the era. Grades 8 - 11. Recommended by Kim.

Paterson, Katherine. //**Lyddie.**// Lodestar Books, 1991. This story is three years in the life of Lyddie Worthen, a young, impoverished Vermont farm girl determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1840s. The book focuses on the effects of poverty and industrialization while highlighting Lyddie's personal growth. Grades 5 - 8. Recommended by Katy.

__**Nonfiction**__