Kit Kittredge is a young girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio when the Great Depression hits. Her father, a once successful car dealership owner, loses his business, plummeting the family into poverty. Her dad searches for work, but is unsuccessful, causing the family to have to open their home to borders and eventually almost lose it to foreclosure. Kit is a fun-loving girl, obsessed with baseball and Amelia, Earheart, but through her family's poverty, she comes to see the struggles of others and...