Hoping for rain
Subtitle: the Dust Bowl adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler
By: by Kate Connell.
Series: I am American
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780792269038
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature; Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Farm life -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Depressions -- 1929; Dust storms -- Great Plains; Droughts -- Great Plains; Farm life -- Great Plains; Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Great Plains -- History
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Illustrated text, letters, and diary excerpts follow the fictional Buckler family during the Great Depression, as they leave Oklahoma, because of drought and duststorms, and move to California to find work and a better life.
Table of contents: title: The dirty thirties; title: Black Sunday; title: Dust, dust everywhere; title: Until it rains; title: Going down the road; title: Hope on the horizon.