Voices of the Dust Bowl, Hardcover - Sherry Garland

Reducere. The 1930s Dust Bowl was the greatest ecological tragedy in the United States. Through a combination of drought and fierce winds, America's Great Pl...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Reducere. This heartwarming story of a buffalo soldier's service to his country during the Indian Wars and Spanish-American War reveals the many hardships th...

Reducere. Where you come from isn't who you are Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 193...

Reducere. Set in the 1930s Oklahoma, this American Horse Tale is the story of a young girl who makes the difficult decision to leave her family and move to C...

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Reducere. When she is forced to leave Vietnam, a young girl brings a lotus seed with her to America in remembrance of her homeland. Exquisite artwork fuses w...

Reducere. Based on a true story, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl is an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when ...

Reducere. In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of...

Reducere. When the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the...

Reducere. When American soldiers departed Vietnam, many left children behind--like seventeen-year-old Loi, whose fellow villagers ostracize her because she i...

* ``A complete visual package.`` --Booklist, starred review On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions ...

Reducere. In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outco...

Reducere. Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices ...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

Reducere. ``A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend...

Reducere. It is 1933. As a beat-up truck travels down a road away from Arkansas, seven-year-old Molly May Dowden can only hope a better future awaits her par...

Reducere. In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the account...

Reducere. "Dragonflies are just faeries in disguise." This delightful collection of thirteen rhyming poems is a reflection on faeries, their lives and activi...

Reducere. Something smells fishy in the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. The merfolk claim the mighty kraken is attacking their city and threatening their saf...

Reducere. A deluxe edition of Philip Pullman's bestselling classic, with gorgeous new full-page illustrations, just in time for the holidays. "It's a stunnin...

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young w...

Reducere. A whimsical alphabet book that can be read aloud or as an early-reader for young children. A bowl of buttered bugs is just one of the options young...

Okeye is a cave-dwelling creature with a love of football who befriends Sam and Jack. The two young boys take Okeye home to meet Mum and Dad and th...

A delicious take on the latest superfood meal, with innovative grain, seed, and rice recipes ideal for everyday healthy eatingGrain bowls and porri...

Reducere. DescriptionAs The Orphan Train Saga continues, Cindy and her mother continue to uncover the secrets in the journals that are hidden in her grandmot...

Reducere. When the biggest army ever raised by Rome is annihilated in battle, seven people's lives are upturned. Their fates intertwine as they face the dang...

A poem cycle that reads as a novel, "Out of the Dust" tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dustbowl ye...

Reducere. Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by F...