The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939 ★ 3.9

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis, Alberto Jimenez Rioja, Reginald André Jackson et al.

1999 ★ 4.5

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976 ★ 4.2

Water for Elephants

John Randolph Jones, Sara Gruen, David LeDoux

2006 ★ 3.5

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

1997 ★ 4.1

Let The Circle be Unbroken

Mildred D. Taylor

1981 ★ 4.5

A Long Way from Chicago

Richard Peck, R. Peck

1998

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Kimberly Willis Holt

1999 ★ 4.7

The great crash, 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

1955 ★ 4.3

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Horace McCoy

1970 ★ 4.3

Meet Kit

Walter Rane, Valerie Tripp

2000 ★ 4.0

Zero History

William Gibson

2010 ★ 3.8

Survival in the Storm

Katelan Janke

2002

The adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

1953 ★ 3.8

Dear America

Kathryn Lasky

2001

Wisconsin Death Trip

Michael Lesy

1973

Blue Willow

Doris Gates

1968

Moon over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

2010 ★ 4.2

The mighty Miss Malone

Christopher Paul Curtis

2012 ★ 4.8

Kit learns a lesson

Valerie Tripp

2000 ★ 4.8

Winter Cottage

Carol Ryrie Brink

1968

The Velvet Room

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1965

Song of the Trees

Mildred D. Taylor

1975 ★ 4.0

Kit saves the day!

Valerie Tripp

2001

Rainwater

Sandra Brown

2009

Mildred Pierce

James M. Cain

1941 ★ 3.7

Hard times

Studs Terkel

1970

Kit's surprise

Walter Rane, Valerie Tripp

2000

Manias, panics, and crashes

R. Aliber, Charles Poor Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

1978

Blizzard Of the Blue Moon

Mary Pope Osborne

1992 ★ 4.0