Great Contraction; The Great Depression: America, 1929–1941; The Greatest Generation (book)

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis. 5.

Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall. 4. 6. John Steinbeck depicted the hardships of the Dust Bowl and rural America like no other, and Pearl S. Buck revealed the Chinese were suffering similar hardships on their side of the globe in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Good Earth. 3.

Both books are required reading for the student who wishes to understand how America changed from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression. 2. Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown. Both books emphasize the experimental nature of FDR's attempts at righting the economy, and ascribe much of the direction of the New Deal to political rather than economic forces. 9 Novels Set During The Great Depression 1.