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| Original Title: | Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards |
| ISBN: | 0439215994 (ISBN13: 9780439215992) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dear America |
| Setting: | Dalhart, Texas(United States) |
Katelan Janke
Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.93 | 2049 Users | 103 Reviews
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This teen wrote the events of dust bowl panhandle area Texas in her diary. It can be read in one sitting and is super simple language. She relates the weather conditions, her family's difficulties in keeping the dust out of the house (this was truly horrendous) and the crop and economics of the farmers, just like her father. She relates in detail the dust pneumonia realities and the death of children. One of them her sister's best friend. She takes part in the hospital placements and care for some of those afflicted. It taught me a few facts that I knew from other "eyes" but this one was still worth the read. Her family's past neighbors that moved to CA for work- their letters were filled with detail. And I thought it was something how respectful people were to get "a job". Even if the job entailed work where their kids who had little or no food were still not allowed to eat the fallen and rotting fruit on site during the workday. And the "help" sent by government? Buying your dying cow or pig? Regardless, growing all that wheat for WWI took its toll. And burning wheat stub down before planting the same thing again! What a bitter lesson. My brother experienced sand storms in Iraq and he has pictures. I can't imagine how awful that dark must have been. And is.
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| Title | : | Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America) |
| Author | : | Katelan Janke |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2002 by Scholastic Inc. (first published September 2002) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Childrens. Young Adult. Middle Grade. Diary |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 2049 Users | 103 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
This one I thought was particularly good. I am from Kansas so we were right in the heart of the Dust Bowl. For my degree in college I had to take Kansas History and learning about the Dirty Thirties was really fun an interesting. So I cannot believe I waited so long to read this specific Dear America novel. Grace Edwards is from Dalhart, Texas and in 1935 the Dust Bowl was still four years from getting its first good rain. I like that the author depicted the families as just normal everyday4.5/5 stars probably one of my favorite "Dear America" books ♡
This book made me of "Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck and "Texas" by Michener.Six years of dust and depression. Finding good out of bad or no so good sitution.Milking cows, cooking by wood stove, canning and vegetable gardening.Simple things that most of us do not know how to do.California not the "promised land" as many thought.Political & Governmental programs that worked and didn't work.School lunch and Soil conservation good. others not so.Made me thankful for what I have today.Family and
Just finished reading this with a small group of 3rd graders (reading on a 5th grade level), and we all really enjoyed it. It was engaging and informative--I learned lots of new things, too! We're now beginning a research project as there are lots of potential topics: dust pneumonia, the Great Depression, migrant camps, etc. It would make a good companion read to Esparanza Rising, as there are some interesting connections.
i would give it 100 stars but there is only 5
Grace`s time is hard, all the cases of dust pneumonia, all those moving, and all those dying from terrible cases of dust pneumonia. The dusts, or dusters, have hit the Edwards` family hard, and both Grace and Ruth have lost their best friends, though in different ways. Grace`s best friend, Helen has to move because of dusters, and her family feels it`s unsafe. Ruth`s best friend, Hannah, died from a bad, bad case of dust pneumonia. When Graces finds a friend, David, he moves away. That`s because
I think that this book was really interesting, it taught you a lot about how life was like in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. It made me grateful for how easy my life is, and it made me wonder at how people lived on so little money, and how people coped with the terrifying dust storms. This book had a little romance, and it had a lot about dealing with loss; of friends, cows, and money.
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