About this title: Skillfully blending historical fact and fast-paced fiction, Meltzer delivers a dramatic, insightful novel set during the Great Depression, and brings alive a period when families desperately tried to cope as hopelessness gripped the nation. Includes an Authors Note.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Date Published: 2007-10-15
ISBN-13:9780618874453ISBN:0618874453
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618874453ISBN:0618874453
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. CJ4-Dust jacket mylar protected. Skillfully blending historical fact and fast-paced fiction, Milton Meltzer vividly depicts the uncertainty and hardship that engulfed the nation during the Great Depression. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618874453ISBN:0618874453
Description: New. Skillfully blending historical fact and fast-paced fiction, Meltzer delivers a dramatic, insightful novel set during the Great Depression, and brings alive a period when families desperately tried to cope as hopelessness gripped the nation. Includes... read more
"At the heart of the novel is the Bonus March on Washington by veterans during the depression. The main character, a seventeen-year-old son of a veteran, works a milk route to help ends meet at home. His father washes windows. When they decide to join the Bonus March, lives are changed. Sometimes the data was a bit heavy-handed, but the story is an important."
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