Filter By Subjects
Depressions 1929 Fiction Depressions 1929 Great Plains Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Juvenile fiction Dust storms Fiction Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains Social conditions 20th century Oklahoma Fiction Social historyFilter By Subjects
Depressions 1929 Fiction Depressions 1929 Great Plains Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Juvenile fiction Dust storms Fiction Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains Social conditions 20th century Oklahoma Fiction Social historyAppelt, Kathi
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC APPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC APPMoss, Marissa.
Summary: Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle/Harcourt 2001
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MOSDeen, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEEDurbin, William
Summary: Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURHesse, Karen.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1997
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESMcFarlane, Fiona
Summary: "The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFJohnson, Kristin F.
Summary: "A team's school bus breaks down in the middle of the desert after a disappointing loss at the State Championships, and a gathering dust storm threatens to turn their bus into a death trap. It will take some quick thinking to get through this!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC JOHHesse, Karen.
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESJanke, Katelan.
Summary: 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 an historical note about life in America in 1935.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAEgan, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006