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English
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Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones in the darkest years of the Depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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2022-2023 Bluebonnet Award Nominees
Historical Fiction - Juvenile
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
Texas History for Kids
Historical Fiction - Juvenile
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees 2022-2023
Texas History for Kids
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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.
10) Drylongso
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.
11) The Dust Bowl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Discusses the causes of the Dust Bowl and the plight of farmers and their families during and after the storms.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Orry Jenkins is sick and tired of the dust. The year is 1935 and Kansas hasn't gotten enough rain in years. Instead of rainstorms, they get dust storms. One day, Orry and his little stepsister go outside to play. They're far from home when a huge dust storm comes up. Stranded alone on the plains, the children must find a way to survive the terrible black blizzard.
17) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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.
18) The Dust Bowl
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
As Matthew and his grandfather look out the farmhouse window, his grandfather tells him about life on the farm during the great dust storm of the 1930's.
20) The dust bowl
Pub. Date
2012
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.
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