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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After riding out a hurricane and saving a dog in the process, Helicity is invited to an international hot air balloon festival for an interview, but the ride turns frightening when her balloon gets stuck in a dust storm.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact...
4) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
5) Killer dust
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 114 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Until the arrival of European and American settlers in the late nineteenth century, the southern Plains of the United States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming. Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds and especially low, unreliable precipitation made it unsuitable for standard agriculture. But at the start of the...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.
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