During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
year: 2019
call number/section: 1000, 392
subjects: families, juvenile fiction, poverty, single-parent families, depressions, 1929, family life, fiction, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century, juvenile fiction / social issues / homelessness & poverty, juvenile fiction / nature & the natural world / general (see also headings under animals), united states, history, 1919-1933, juvenile fiction, fiction, historical fiction, picture books