Lasky, Kathryn.

Christmas after all : the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift / by Kathryn Lasky. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 2001. - 185 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. - Dear America. . - Dear America. .

"Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932"--Cover.

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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Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Diaries--Juvenile fiction.
Christmas stories.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Family life--Indiana--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.


Indiana--Juvenile fiction.
Indiana--Fiction.

PZ7.L3274 / Ch 2001

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