The worst of times
a story of the Great Depression
About this book
In the early 1930s in Chicago, twelve-year-old Petey's family faces poverty and internal strife after his father loses his job, while, at the same time, his wealthy, older cousin takes on the dangerous work of a union organizer.
Subjects
- depressions
- family problems
- fiction
- great depression, 1929-1939
- history
- juvenile fiction
- labor unions
- poverty
- texas, history, revolution, 1835-1836