History comes alive through the eyes of a young American girl To twelve-year-old Minnie Swift, Christmas is not going to be the time of bounty she's used to. It is 1932-the middle of the Great Depression-and jobs are scarce and Papa seems more worried each day. But when their...
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.
Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's CHRISTMAS AFTER ALL is back in print with a gorgeous new package To twelve-year-old Minnie Swift, Christmas is not going to be the time of bounty she's used to. It is 1932 -- the middle of the Great Depression -- and jobs are scarce...