The Great American Dust Bowl

The Great American Dust Bowl* "A complete visual package." Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster a savage storm on America's high southern plains. The sky turned black, sand filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow people got lost in the gloom and suffocated . . . and that was

* "A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains. The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated . . . and that was just the beginning. Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 10/10/2017
ISBN: 9781328740878
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.50w x 0.20d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 160794 / Great American Dust Bowl
Reading Level: 5.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5