Recommended Children's and Pedagogy Literature: 1930s and Arts Integration

I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the 1930s to students in intermediate-level grades:

• Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by Moss, Marissa
• Bud, Not Buddy (Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf) by Curtis, Christopher Paul and A Guide for Using Bud, Not Buddy in the Classroom
  
• The Hoover Dam: The Story of Hard Times, Tough People and The Taming of a Wild River (Wonders of the World Book) by Mann, Elizabeth and Wischonke, Alan
• Rudy Rides the Rails: A Depression Era Story (Tales of Young America) by Mackall, Dandi Daley
• Saving Strawberry Farm by Hopkinson, Deborah
• Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition) by Hesse, Karen
• Tree of Hope by Littlesugar, Amy
• The Great Depression by Kids Discover
• The House in the Mail by Wells, Rosemary
• Tough Times: A Novel by Meltzer, Milton
• Talkin' About Bessie by Grimes, Nikki
• Children of the Great Depression by Freedman, Russell
• Dust Bowl!: The 1930s Black Blizzards (X-Treme Disasters That Changed America) by Levey, Richard H.
• Civilian Conservation Corps (Cobblestone)
• Rent Party Jazz by Miller, William