The Great American Dust Bowl

A speck of dust is a tiny thing. In fact, five of them could fit into the period at the end of this sentence.

On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions of these specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.

The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated . . . and that was just the beginning.

Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with kinetic, highly saturated, and lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl.

Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.20h x 6.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780547815503
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 160794 / Great American Dust Bowl


Award: Bluebonnet Awards - Nominee
Award: William Allen White Childens Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2013 pg. 113
New York Times Book Review 11/10/2013 pg. 38
Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books 11/15/2013 pg. 72
School Library Journal 09/01/2013
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013

About the Author
Using resonant storytelling and evocative art, Don Brown shares with his readers the excitement, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. His work has been called pacesetting, carefully crafted, compassionate, and forthright. He lives in New York with his family.