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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
201 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Facing his share of ordinary challenges, from local bullies to his father's failed expectations, eleven-year-old Jack Clark must also deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas, including the rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness.
Author
Language
English
Description
This "riveting" companion to the PBS documentary "clarifies our understanding of the 'worst manmade ecological disaster in American history'" (Booklist).
In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe,...
In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe,...
6) Rainwater
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Series
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxiv, 229 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dust Bowl memoir of a family who held on tenant-farming in Oklahoma years after their relatives westered to California. Focuses on Henshaw's father, who would not leave until he could pay his way to California, and on her parents' strong marriage and how it sustained the family of eleven--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ensign Peak
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul's family has struggled to make ends meet during the devastating dust storms of the Midwest. When a family arrives in need, Jake must choose between helping the family or saving his beloved calf. A Christmas miracle helps him learn the true meaning of the season--
Author
Publisher
South Dakota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using the writings of his grandmother, Margaret Spader Neises, and mother, Joan Neises Volk, author Craig Volk creates a one-year diary that details the life and times of a woman during 1932."--
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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