Title: Hoping for rain
Description: Like many farmers living in the Great Plains during the 1930s, the Bucklers are ravaged by months of dust storms and drought. Out of desperation, they travel West with their children, Patty and Earl, in hopes of finding new prosperity. Through letters and diary entries written by the Buckler children, readers witness the disaster of the Dust Bowl and the countless days spent wishing for an end to the drought - and their hunger. As they travel across the country, young Earl searches for work so he can help provide for the family.
Subjects: Depressions, Farmers, Droughts, Dust Bowl, Social conditions, Farm life, Juvenile literature, Dust storms, History, Depressions, 1929, juvenile literature, Farm life, juvenile literature, Great plains, Great plains, juvenile literature, Storms, Storms, juvenile literature
Places: Great Plains
Time periods: 1929, 20th century