Deen, Natasha
Summary: In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're running out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEEBowling, Dusti
Summary: When a boy with a terrible secret moves to town there is a sudden increase in dust storms, and asthmatic Avalyn theorizes the storms are linked to his emotions and tries to help as she struggles to breathe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWDurbin, William
Summary: Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURSummary: Horton is a the lovable elephant who tries to protect tiny creatures on a speck of dust. It seems that he is the only one who can hear the tiny people of the tiny planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Horton 2008Moss, Marissa.
Summary: Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle/Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MOSDallas, Sandra
Summary: In 1933, when twelve-year-old Hallie Turner and her brothers, Tom and Benny, take to the road seeking whatever work they can get, they find kindness in small-town Kansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DALSchrempp, Skyler
Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHShiell, Mike
Summary: "Linty is a ball of lint. He's been living a quiet, solitary life in a pair of hand-me-down jeans, where he has been nestled undisturbed for months, possibly even years. So it's quite a shock for Linty when a boy finally puts on the jeans. Before he knows it, Linty is joined by other pocket things, and his once lonely world is now filled with friends! But just as he's starting to get used to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Appelt, Kathi
Summary: In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC APPLynn, Andrea
Summary: Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LYNHevron, Amy
Summary: A lonely dust bunny tries to make friends with passing creatures with no success, until a broom sweeps him under the bed and he finds more friends like him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEVMeadows, Rae
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Hannah, Kristin
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Newly elected Congressman Roy Rogers attempts to bring attention to his constituents' farms that are being decimated by the Dust Bowl. Now that a water company has built a dam and is charging the farmers exorbitant rates for water, Roy must convince a group of important Senators to help him and the farmers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNDBrown, Sandra
Summary: In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROFinkbeiner, Susie.
Summary: Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need―and during these desperate times, there are plenty of both, even if half the town stands empty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Finkbeiner 2015Hesse, Karen.
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HESMiro, J. M.
Summary: "In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy, the world of the dead is closer than you think. Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine-long-hidden, thought lost-which might not even exist. But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, a body wreathed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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Thomas, Jan
Summary: Dust bunnies who enjoy rhyming games and a boisterous cat who likes to chase and grab learn how to play together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Thomas 2009Brown, Sandra
Summary: In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BROHannah, Kristin
Summary: "From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANJanke, Katelan.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes an historical note about life in America in 1935.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JANJohnson, Kristin F.
Summary: "A team's school bus breaks down in the middle of the desert after a disappointing loss at the State Championships, and a gathering dust storm threatens to turn their bus into a death trap. It will take some quick thinking to get through this!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC JOHMcFarlane, Fiona
Summary: "The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023