Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl

by Albert Marrin

Book Overview

In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142425796
• ISBN13: 9780142425794
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher