Children Of The Dust

Author : Louise Lawrence
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446430782
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Of The Dust written by Louise Lawrence and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'. Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent . . . It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and the subsequent slow, torturous death, which seems almost preferable to surviving in a grey, dead world, choked by dust. But then, from out of the dust and the ruins and the desolation, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world...

Author : Jerry Stanley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307792471
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp written by Jerry Stanley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.

Author : Clancy Carlile
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dust written by Clancy Carlile and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, this western traces the lives of an intriguing cast of characters, some of whom are historical.

Author : Betty Grant Henshaw
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725850
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dust written by Betty Grant Henshaw and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggles and triumphs of a large family who left Oklahoma to find work in California during the Dust Bowl years.

Author : Karen Mueller Coombs
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575053608
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dust Days written by Karen Mueller Coombs and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ali Eteraz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061626856
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Dust written by Ali Eteraz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary personal journey from Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west In this spellbinding portrayal of a life that few Americans can imagine, Ali Eteraz tells the story of his schooling in a madrassa in Pakistan, his teenage years as a Muslim American in the Bible Belt, and his voyage back to Pakistan to find a pious Muslim wife. This lyrical, penetrating saga from a brilliant new literary voice captures the heart of our universal quest for identity and the temptations of religious extremism.

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 054557806X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words in the Dust written by Trent Reedy and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show. Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. Zulaikha knows all will be provided for her--"Inshallah," God willing. Then she meets Meena, who offers to teach her the Afghan poetry she taught her late mother. And the Americans come to her village, promising not just new opportunities and dangers, but surgery to fix her face. These changes could mean a whole new life for Zulaikha--but can she dare to hope they'll come true?

Author : Marlin Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646030798
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Dust written by Marlin Barton and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, as Seth Anderson researches his family history, he discovers an unexpected story and "contained within it lies a larger story that might speak not just to Southern history but beyond it." In the late 1800s in rural Alabama, Melinda Anderson struggles to give birth to her tenth child, tended by Annie Mae, a part-Choctaw midwife. When the infant dies, just hours after birth, suspicion falls upon two women--Betsy, Annie Mae's daughter and the mixed-race mistress of Melinda's husband, Rafe; and Melinda herself, worn out by perpetual pregnancies and nurturing a dark anger toward her husband. Seeking to clear her own name and tarnish that of her enemy, Melinda enlists the help of a conjure woman who dabbles in dark magic--with tragic consequences. As Seth's search for his family's truth continues, he must come to terms with their failure in confronting their past and in his own culpability in that failure. Filled with haunts, new and old, Children of Dust is a novel about the relationship between two women allied against a violent man with secrets of his own, and it is also a complex look at race, violence, and the ways in which stories are passed down through generations.

Author : Sherry Garland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589809642
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Dust Bowl written by Sherry Garland and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from those who lived through the largest environmental catastrophe in American history. From 1931 to 1940, a combination of drought and soil erosion destroyed the fragile ecology and economy of the Great Plains. Evocative illustrations accompany poignant testimonies, including those of a farmer's wife, a banker, and a child who had never seen rain, to provide an emotionally charged account.

Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802795471
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dust Bowl Through the Lens written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling- photojournalism-was born. With the help of iconic photographs from Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and many more, Martin Sandler tells the story of a nation as it endured its darkest days and the extraordinary courage and spirit of those who survived.