Dear America: Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift
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In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
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Kathryn Lasky is the Newbery Honor-winning author of over 100 books for children and young adults. Her beloved Guardians of Ga’Hoole fantasy series has more than seven million copies in print, and she is the author of the Daughters of the Sea series and the Wolves of the Beyond series, as well as A Time for Courage and other Dear America titles. Kathryn has also written a number of critically acclaimed historical fiction titles, such as Beyond the Burning Time and True North. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780439219433
- Publication Date
- November 1, 2001
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Page Count
- 182
- Reading Age
- 9 - 14 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 00067031
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 45655118
- Lexile® Level
- 770L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~R
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.4
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 55193
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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