TY - BOOK AU - Lasky,Kathryn TI - Christmas after all: the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift T2 - Dear America SN - 0439219434 AV - PZ7.L3274 Ch 2001 U1 - [Fic] 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Families KW - Orphans KW - Diaries KW - Christmas stories KW - Fiction KW - Family life KW - Indiana N1 - "Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932"--Cover; 770; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.4; 5.0; 55193 N2 - 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 ER -