Rooted in Dust

Rooted in Dust
Author: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Examines the social impact of drought and depression in Kansas, illustrating how both farm and town families dealt with the deprivation by finding odd jobs, working in government programmes, or depending on federal and private assistance.

Dust to Eat

Dust to Eat
Author: Michael L. Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618154494

Cooper takes readers through a tumultuous period in American history, chronicling the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California on fabled Route 66. Includes endnotes, bibliography, Internet resources, and index. Archival photos.

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)
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.

Dust Girl

Dust Girl
Author: Sarah Zettel
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375869387

On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.

Deeply Rooted

Deeply Rooted
Author: Ice Mike
Publisher: Duffle Bag Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0996284028

The Dust Bowl and the Depression in American History

The Dust Bowl and the Depression in American History
Author: Debra McArthur
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766018389

Examines the conditions that led to the severe drought and terrible dust storm that destroyed crops and farmland during the 1930s.

Next Year Country

Next Year Country
Author: H. Craig Miner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

A richly textured history of the resilience and adaptability of western Kansans to survive two major depressions and the epic Dust Bowl years--separated only by a brief "golden age" of war-related prosperity. Miner, known as the "dean of Kansas history," vividly relates the people's negotiation with the high plains environment, which happens to teach harsh lessons of mutability and perseverance better than most places.

Dust Bowl Girls

Dust Bowl Girls
Author: Lydia Reeder
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616204664

"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."

From Dust, a Flame

From Dust, a Flame
Author: Rebecca Podos
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062699075

Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can. Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations. All that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pair of golden eyes with knife-slit pupils blinking back at her from the mirror—the first of many such impossible mutations. Promising that she knows someone who can help, her mother leaves Hannah and Gabe behind to find a cure. But as the days turn to weeks and their mother doesn’t return, they realize it’s up to them to find the truth. What they discover is a family they never knew and a history more tragic and fantastical than Hannah could have dreamed—one that stretches back to her grandmother’s childhood in Prague under the Nazi occupation, and beyond, into the realm of Jewish mysticism and legend. As the past comes crashing into the present, Hannah must hurry to unearth their family’s secrets in order to break the curse and save the people she loves most, as well as herself.