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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 (Dear America)
Christmas After All The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift Indianapolis Indiana 1932 - Dear America Author:Kathryn Lasky At the age of 12, Minnie Swift is living through one of the toughest times in America's history, The Great Depression. She keeps a detailed diary over the span of one Christmas month. Reflecting the sadness -- but also the optimism -- that characterized that time, this is an intimate portrait of a midwestern family's days and nights, ups... more » and downs, triumphs and losses. It is the story of one family's preservering spirit. The Christmas Spirit. 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.« less