Macaroni Boy

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Summary: Historical Fiction Can Be Fun
Review: Katherine Ayres specializes in "period piece" kid fiction. Like her SILVER DOLLAR GIRL, this one takes readers into the crisis zone with lots of details. This Depression story opens up pssiibilities for teachers to tie in a lot of history. Asking kids to ask their grandparents about THEIR years in the Dpression would be a good ending to the story, or take off on the tangent of how DOES a depression happen, who controls money, where does it come from and where does it go could be another one.