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Language
English
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The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
189 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Winds whipped dark clouds of dust across the dry, open croplands of the Great Plains. How did this tragedy begin and what took the country through the worst of this extreme drought in the Dust Bowl? Learn about this trying time with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary and middle school students written at a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Dyslexia friendly font and design make learning accessible and a recap at the...
Publisher
PBS Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring poignant interviews with witnesses and remarkable archival film footage and photographs, Surviving the dust bowl tells the heart-wrenching story of people who endured a series of almost Biblical scourges, from drought and famine to a plague of jackrabbits"--Container.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you re on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
10) Strangerland
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine and Matthew Parker's lives are flung into crisis when they discover their two teenage kids, Tommy and Lily, have mysteriously disappeared just before a massive dust storm hits. With Nathgari eerily smothered in red dust and darkness, the townsfolk join the search led by local cop, David Rae. It soon becomes apparent that something terrible may have happened to Tommy and Lily.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 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.
12) The Dust Bowl
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Dust Bowl of the 1930s through interviews with survivors, dramatic photographs, and rarely seen movie footage.
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