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Author Coombs, Karen Mueller, 1947-

Title Children of the dust days / Karen Mueller Coombs.

Imprint Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction  978 COOMBS    ---  Available
Description 48 p. : ill., map ; 20 x 22 cm.
Series Picture the American past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
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.
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.
Study Program AR RL 4.3 0.5 49533 PCMS.
Subject Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Children -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Juvenile literature.
Dust storms -- Great Plains.
Depressions -- 1929.
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Great Plains -- Social conditions.
ISBN 1575053608 (alk. paper)

 
    
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