Have a look at the LM94022. Price is $1.27 from Digikey you can get the data sheet there as well (I had a link but Digikey uses scripts and the link comes out bad). It has a couple of options for gain set through pins. The biggest downside to this part is the package; not user friendly for hand soldering.
IIRC the LM34 is a little weird that it requires a negative bias to give voltages below 0 or something, and it only operates down to 5V.
Good luck.
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