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Deen, Natasha Egan, Timothy Langston-George, Rebecca Loh-Hagan, Virginia Meadows, RaeDeen, Natasha
Summary: In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're running out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEEMeadows, Rae
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Egan, Timothy
Summary: "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 who 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 homes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganLoh-Hagan, Virginia
Summary: "The events surrounding the Dust Bowl did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant farm worker, and a government journalist as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 45th Parallel Press/Cherry Lake Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.917 LOHLangston-George, Rebecca
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015