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Author Coombs, Karen Mueller, 1947-

Title Children of the dust days / Karen Mueller Coombs.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2000]
©2000
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1204656~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Nonfiction  J 978.032 COO    AVAILABLE
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Description 48 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 x 22 cm
Series Picture the American past.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Black blizzards -- Dreams turn to dust -- New land, new dreams afterward -- Dust days clothing: How to make a burlap shirt -- Note to teachers and adults -- Resources on the dust days.
Study Program Accelerated Reader LG 4.3 0.5 49533
Note Accelerated Reader LG 4.3 0.5 49533
Subject Dust storms -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile literature.
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 1575053608 (alk. paper)
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