Hard Times for Jake Smith: A Story of the Depression Era
by Aileen Kilgore Henderson
It's 1935 and from a child's eye view, the hard times of the Depression era are becoming... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 43,765
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 830L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 78033, 7 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Depressions--History--Fiction
- Abandoned children--Fiction
- 20th century
- Identity
- Disguise--Fiction
- Depressions
- Alabama
- Identity--Fiction
- Disguise
- Alabama--History--20th century--Fiction
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Families
- Families--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Abandoned children
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