| Children of the Great Depression | Freedman, Russell. | 2005 | 305.23 FRE |
| Presents a collection of illustrated archival photographs describing children of the Great Depression, and draws upon memoirs, diaries, letters, and other first-hand accounts that look at the lives of young Americans during the 1930s. |
| The Great Depression in American history | Fremon, David K. | 1997 | 338.5 FRE |
| Describes the history surrounding the Great Depression, highlighting the causes and key figures. |
| Music of the Great Depression | Young, William H., 1939- | 2005 | 780 YOU |
| Presents a comprehensive history of the music of the 1930s and 1940s, examining the various styles of music including popular hits, swing, and Broadway tunes, and profiles great songwriters and composers such as Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, the Dorseys, Glen Miller, and others. |
| Conflict in Europe and the Great Depression : World War I (1914-1940) | Brown, Gene. | 1993 | 973.9 BRO |
| Presents primary source materials chronicling the First World War and the Great Depression. |
| Progressivism the Great Depression and the New Deal 1901-1941 | Collier, Christopher, 1930- | 2001 | 973.91 COL |
| Discusses the Great Depression of the 1930s including the "progressive era" and the "new deal" under the leadership of president Franklin Roosevelt. |
| The Great Depression : a primary source history | Schultz, Stanley. | 2006 | 973.91 SCH |
| Presents a short history of the Great Depression, and discusses the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment, pre-war and war years, and more. |
| Christmas after all : the great depression dairy of Minnie Swift | Lasky, Kathryn. | 2001 | FIC LAS |
| In her fictionalized journal, Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression. |
| Rose's journal : the story of a girl in the Great Depression | Moss, Marissa. | 2003 | FIC MOS |
| A fictional eleven-year-old Kansas girl chronicles the first six months of 1935, describing the sacrifices her family makes and the entertainments they still enjoy in the midst of the Depression, and the struggles of farm life during the Dust Bowl. |
| Headin' for better times : the arts of the great depression | Damon, Duane. | 2002 | 700 DAM |
| Documents the wide range of the arts of the Great Depression including music, plays, and paintings. |
| Down Cut Shin Creek : the pack horse librarians of Kentucky | Appelt, Kathi, 1954- | 2001 | 027.0769 APP |
| Presents an overview of the pack horse librarians who served the people of Kentucky's Cumberland Mountains as part of a the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. |
| Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp | Stanley, Jerry, 1941- | 1992 | 371.826 STA |
| Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California and were forced to live in a federal labor camp. |
| Years of dust : the story of the Dust Bowl | Marrin, Albert. | 2009 | 978 MAR |
| Examines the causes of the Dust Bowl, discusses its effects, and provides primary source quotes and photographs. |
| The dust bowl and the Depression in American history | McArthur, Debra. | 2002 | 978 MCA |
| Examines the conditions that led to the drought, dust storms, and depression of the 1930s. |
| Saving Grace | Cummings, Priscilla, 1951- | 2003 | FIC CUM |
| When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C. apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of the rest of her family. |
| Bud not Buddy | Curtis, Christopher Paul. | 1999 | FIC CUR |
| Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father. |
| A letter to Mrs Roosevelt | De Young, C. Coco. | 1999 | FIC DEY |
| Eleven-year-old Margo fulfills a class assignment by writing a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for help to save her family's home during the Great Depression. |
| The amazing thinking machine | Haseley, Dennis. | 2002 | FIC HAS |
| During the Great Depression, while their father is away looking for work, eight-year-old Patrick and thirteen-year-old Roy create a machine to help their mother make ends meet, even as she is helping tramps. |
| Hitch | Ingold, Jeanette. | 2005 | FIC ING |
| To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success. |
| Survival in the storm : the dust bowl diary of Grace Edwards | Janke, Katelan. | 2002 | FIC JAN |
| A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences during the Great Depression. |
| If wishes were horses | Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. | 2000 | FIC KIN |
| During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own. |
| Dust | Slade, Arthur G. (Arthur Gregory) | 2003 | FIC SLA |
| Eleven-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. |
| Cissy Funk | Taylor, Kim, 1963- | 2001 | FIC TAY |
| Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she struggles between her aunt and mother in Depression era Colorado. |
| Let the circle be unbroken | Taylor, Mildred D. | 1991 | FIC TAY |
| Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need. |
| Happy birthday Kit! : a springtime story | Tripp, Valerie, 1951- | 2001 | FIC TRI |
| On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression. |
| Kit saves the day : a summer story | Tripp, Valerie, 1951- | 2001 | FIC TRI |
| Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train. |
| The barn burner | Willis, Patricia. | 2000 | FIC WIL |
| In 1933, while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family, which helps him make an important decision. |
| Franklin D Roosevelt : letters from a mill town girl | Winthrop, Elizabeth. | 2001 | FIC WIN |
| In 1933, a young girl corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her Massachusetts town. |
| Herbert Hoover | Ruth, Amy. | 2004 | 92 HOO |
| A biography of the thirty-first president of the United States, describing his career as mining engineer, businessman, and president during the Great Depression. |
| A chance to make good : African Americans 1900-1929 | Grossman, James R. | 1997 | 973 GRO |
| Chronicles the lives of African Americans from the turn of the twentieth century to the Great Depression. |
| War peace and all that jazz | Hakim, Joy. | 2003 | 973.91 HAK |
| Offers a history of the United States from 1918 to 1945 focusing on World War I, prohibition, American music, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, World War II, confronting the axis, the atom bomb, and more. |
| Freedom's song : 100 years of African-American struggle and triumph | Neal, La Vonne I. | 2006 | DVD 973 FRE |
| 1900-1909, the Niagara Movement; [with lesson plan by Julie A. Armentrout; Rhonda Williams] -- 1910-1919, African Americans in World War I; [with lesson plan by Rhonda Williams] -- 1920-1929, the Tulsa race riots; [with lesson plan by Rhonda Williams] -- 1930-1939, African Americans during the Great Depression; [with lesson plan by Elaine A. Cheesman] -- 1940-1949, the Tuskegee Airmen; [with lesson plan by Elaine A. Cheesman] -- 1950-1959, Brown v. Board of Education; [with lesson plan by Julie A. Armentrout -- 1960-1969, the Poor People's Campaign; [with lesson plan by Rhonda Williams] -- 1970-1979, African American mayors; [with lesson plan by Clint Fisher] -- 1980-1989, an African American for president : [the Jesse Jackson campaign]; [with lesson plan by Clint Fi |
| Esperanza renace | Ryan, Pam Muänoz. | 2002 | SPA FIC RYA |
| Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. |