Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Title | Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Stanley |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 2014-11-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0307792471 |
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
Children of the Dust
Title | Children of the Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Grant Henshaw |
Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780896725850 |
The struggles and triumphs of a large family who left Oklahoma to find work in California during the Dust Bowl years.
Children of the Dust Days
Title | Children of the Dust Days PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Mueller Coombs |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781575053608 |
Focuses on the experiences of children during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, when prolonged drought, coupled with farming techniques, caused massive erosion from Texas to Canada's wheat fields.
The Dust Bowl
Title | The Dust Bowl PDF eBook |
Author | David Booth |
Publisher | Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781550742954 |
A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.
The Great American Dust Bowl
Title | The Great American Dust Bowl PDF eBook |
Author | Don Brown |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 85 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0547815506 |
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Voices of the Dust Bowl
Title | Voices of the Dust Bowl PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry Garland |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781589809642 |
Voices from those who lived through the largest environmental catastrophe in American history. From 1931 to 1940, a combination of drought and soil erosion destroyed the fragile ecology and economy of the Great Plains. Evocative illustrations accompany poignant testimonies, including those of a farmer's wife, a banker, and a child who had never seen rain, to provide an emotionally charged account.
Years of Dust
Title | Years of Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Marrin |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0142425796 |
In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the Dust Bowl's imact on the land and the people. Both a tale of natural destruction and a tribute to those who refused to give up, this is a beautiful exploration of an important time in our country's past.