Tripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000