Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
By: by Katelan Janke.
Series: Dear America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Juvenile fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Texas -- Fiction.; Dust storms -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Texas -- Fiction.; Family life -- Texas -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Texas -- History -- 1846-1950 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In sixteen-year-old Katelan Janke's first Dear America book, we meet Grace Edwards, a little girl growing up in the heart of the Texas panhandle, in the midst of the Dust Bowl. Fierce, dust-filled winds ravage the plains and threaten the town's agricultural livelihood, creating poverty and despair among Grace's neighbors. Will her family's farm survive? It's a mystery, find it out in the book!