TY - BOOK AU - Lasky,Kathryn TI - Christmas after all: the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift SN - 0439219434 AV - PZ7.L3274 Ch 2001 U1 - Fic 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Great Depression, 1929-1939 KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Family life KW - Indiana KW - Orphans KW - Diaries KW - Historical Fiction KW - Christmas KW - United States KW - History KW - Depression N1 - RC; 3-7; 770; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.4; 5.0; 55193; Reading Counts!; 770; 5.5; 9; Q26068 N2 - In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932 ER -