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Author
Series
American adventures (Lee Roddy) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Hildy travels with her family to California in search of a better life, only to find that her father's promised job has been given away. Sneered at and called "Okies", they pitch their tent under a bridge among other desitute migrant families.
82) Lackawanna
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
A gang of abandoned children, living together during the Depression in order to survive, is galvanized into action when a hobo kidnaps one of its members.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1935, after his family loses their farm and is forced to move onto an Arkansas plantation, sixth grader Talmadge struggles to endure their harsh new life and fights to stay in school against his mother's wishes.
Author
Series
American adventures (Lee Roddy) volume 1
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Hildy returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. She refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
Las Uvas de la Ira es un hito en la literatura morteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles de personas del Dust Bowl, Las Uvas de la Ira se enfoca en la historia de una familia de Oklahoma, los Joads, echados de su hogar y forzados a viajar...
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