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Media Center Resources
Brown, D. (2013). The great American dust bowl
Call Tag: 978 BRO
Lexile GN860
“The "Dirty Thirties" are brought to life in this graphic novel account of one of America's worst natural disasters--the Dust Bowl.”
Curtis, C. P. (1999). Bud, not Buddy. New York: Delacorte Press.
Call Tag: F CUR
Lexile 950
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Downing, D. (2001). The Great Depression. Chicago, ILL.: Heinemann Library.
Call Tag: 908 DOW
Lexile ~890
“Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs intended to restore the economy.”
Hesse. K. (1999). Out of the dust. New York: Scholastic.
Call Tag: F HES
Lexile 1040
“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.”
Price, S. (2007). The dirty thirties. Chicago, ILL.; Raintree.
Call Tag: 978 PRI
Lexile 600
“Describes the Dust Bowl of the 1930's and the resulting mass migration of the Okies to California.”
Sandler, M. (n. d.). Great American disasters. Harpercollins Children’s Books.
Call Tag: 973 San
“Examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown flood, the Dust Bowl, and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19.”
Stein, R. C. (1993). The Great Depression. Danbury, Conn.: Childrens Press.
Call Tag: 973 ST
Lexile ~890
“Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs intended to restore the economy.”
GALILEO Resources
Dust Bowl. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.proxygsu-sric.galileo.usg.edu/levels/elementary/article/Dust-Bowl/390020
Article 1 Lexile 760
Article 2 Lexile 1200
Great Depression. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.proxygsu-sric.galileo.usg.edu/levels/elementary/article/Great-Depression/353208
Article 1 Lexile 840
Article 2 Lexile 1150
Internet Resources
Ganzel, B. (2003). Farming in the 1030s. Retrieved from
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
Digital Resources. (2216). The human meaning of the Great Depression. Retrieved from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/children_depression/human
Tobin, Declan. (2017). Fun Dust Bowl Facts For Kids. Easy Science for Kids. Retrieved from
http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-dust-bowl/
Includes a video slideshow of pictures of the Dust Bowl with music about the disaster. Total run time 4:03