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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Until the arrival of European and American settlers in the late nineteenth century, the southern Plains of the United States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming. Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds and especially low, unreliable precipitation made it unsuitable for standard agriculture. But at the start of the...
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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.
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English
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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.
12) Drylongso
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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.
13) The Dust Bowl
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Compass Point Books
Language
English
Description
Discusses the causes of the Dust Bowl and the plight of farmers and their families during and after the storms.
14) Dust storm!
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Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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.
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Millbrook Press
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English
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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.
19) The Dust Bowl
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Buffalo, NY
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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.
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