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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"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
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Jennings's ongoing troubles -a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their young son. As the sheriff and his young deputy...
Author
Language
English
Description
The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my baby sister and pull her small body close to me. When the sky clears, we are alone on an empty road with no clue which way to go... Oklahoma, 1935. Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope's hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl towards a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn - a sinister...
5) Days of sand
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A moving and unforgettable tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance during the Dust Bowl of 1930s AmericaUnited States, 1937. In the middle of the Great Depression, 22-year-old photographer John Clark is brought in by the Farm Security Administration to document the calamitous conditions of the Dust Bowl in the central and southern states, in order to bring the farmers' plight to the public eye. When he starts working through...
Author
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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.
7) Rainwater
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually a battered guitar, Guthrie finds solace in the ancient lineage of folksong. Hayes charts the musician's course from Oklahoma and Texas towns ravaged by dust...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A speck of dust is a tiny thing. In fact, five of them could fit into the period at the end of this sentence. On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions of these specks of dust to form a duster -- a savage storm on America's high southern plains. The sky turned black; sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars; trains derailed; and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Adri's, Catherine's, and Lenore's lives are intertwined but not in the way that one would think. Adri lives in 2065 Kansas, Catherine lives in 1930s Kansas, and Lenore lives in England in 1919. As Adri is preparing to go to Mars, she stays with her cousin in Kansas, where the training takes place. Upon settling in, she comes across letters written from Lenore to Beth. Through journals and, later, letters, Catherine narrates her own story of being...
15) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Author
Publisher
Suma/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
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