Children Of The Dust
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Author | : Louise Lawrence |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446430782 |
A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'. Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent . . . It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and the subsequent slow, torturous death, which seems almost preferable to surviving in a grey, dead world, choked by dust. But then, from out of the dust and the ruins and the desolation, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world...
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.
Author | : Clancy Carlile |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Beginning with the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, this western traces the lives of an intriguing cast of characters, some of whom are historical.
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.
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.
Author | : Marlin Barton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2021-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781646030798 |
In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Anderson struggles to give birth to her tenth child, tended by Annie Mae, a part-Choctaw midwife. When the infant dies, just hours after birth, suspicion falls upon two women--Betsy, Annie Mae's daughter and the mixed-race mistress of Melinda's husband, Rafe; and Melinda herself, worn out by perpetual pregnancies and nurturing a dark anger toward her husband. Seeking to clear her own name and tarnish that of her enemy, Melinda enlists the help of a conjure woman who dabbles in dark magic--with tragic consequences. As Seth's search for his family's truth continues, he must come to terms with their failure in confronting their past and in his own culpability in that failure. Filled with haunts, new and old, Children of Dust is a novel about the relationship between two women allied against a violent man with secrets of his own, and it is also a complex look at race, violence, and the ways in which stories are passed down through generations.
Author | : Trent Reedy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054557806X |
Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show. Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?
Author | : Ali Eteraz |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061626856 |
An extraordinary personal journey from Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west In this spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine, Ali Eteraz tells the story of his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan, his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and his voyage back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife. This lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity and the temptations of religious extremism.
Author | : Elizabeth Laird |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230738036 |
Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird is an unforgettable, award-winning novel of conflict, persecution and the hardships faced by refugees. Tara is an ordinary teenager. Although her country, Kurdistan, is caught up in a war, the fighting seems far away. It hasn't really touched her. Until now. The secret police are closing in. Tara and her family must flee to the mountains with only the few things they can carry. It is a hard and dangerous journey - but their struggles have only just begun. Will anywhere feel like home again?
Author | : Karen Hesse |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545517125 |
Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.