Kit's Tree HouseTen-year-old Kit dreams of having a special tree house someday, but she is disappointed with the one her father and her friend build for her. Includes note on housing during the Depression and a related craft activity. |
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... 't afford to pay the mortgage were evicted , or thrown out of their homes . If they had nowhere else to go , they created houses out of packing crates , cardboard , old car bodies , Hoovervilles sprang up in vacant lots . or piano boxes.
... 't afford to pay the mortgage were evicted , or thrown out of their homes . If they had nowhere else to go , they created houses out of packing crates , cardboard , old car bodies , Hoovervilles sprang up in vacant lots . or piano boxes.
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Valerie Tripp. Hoovervilles sprang up in vacant lots . or piano boxes . Groups of these houses were called " Hoovervilles " after former president Herbert Hoover , who many felt hadn't done much to end the Depression . Other homeless ...
Valerie Tripp. Hoovervilles sprang up in vacant lots . or piano boxes . Groups of these houses were called " Hoovervilles " after former president Herbert Hoover , who many felt hadn't done much to end the Depression . Other homeless ...
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Acrylic paints adult help AMERICAN GIRLS COLLECTION attic baby Betty baby-sitting bathroom bathtub bedrooms boarders boarding house castle tree house catalogue CERTIFIES chairs climbed Congress Dad and Stirling Dad's Depression Dottie and Spence drawbridge dreamily Duct tape dungeon extra families flowerpot garage go inside gold cord Grace grinned help Mother high branches home improve Hood tree house Hoovervilles imagination and ingenuity jewelry keep their homes Kit's mother KIT'S TREE HOUSE Kittredge knew Let dry lots lower branches moss Name Address ogres Okay old winter coat paying guests Pew kids Pew's pinecones plaster of Paris rake leaves reupholster Robin Hood tree rope ladder Ruthie and Stirling sell newspapers set the table shared ship tree house sighed sleep smiled spray paint Stirling and Dad Stirling looked Stirling seemed Stirling's surprise Tarzan tree house terrible things thought tomorrow tree house plans VALERIE TRIPP wood