What Was the Great Depression? (What Was?)

by Janet B Pascal (Author) Dede Putra (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market - the system that controls money in America - plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called "Hoovervilles" named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had gone under. Though the U.S. has seen other times of struggle, the Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history. Now it is represented clearly and with 80 illustrations in our What Was...? series.
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Janet B Pascal
Janet Pascal lives in New York, New York. John O'Brien lives in Delaran, New Jersey. Nancy Harrison lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448484273
Lexile Measure
790
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
December 22, 2015
Series
What Was?
BISAC categories
JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF025170 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/General
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
1933-1945
Depressions
1929
1919-1933

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