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Hoping for Rain - The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Kate Connell is a children’s book author who has written several books for National Geographic, including Hoping for Rain: The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler , Servant to Abigail Adams: The Early American Adventures of Hannah Cooper , and Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray?: A Family Divided by the Civil War . Klappentext 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. using the children's first-person accounts as well as period illustrations and photographs! the book accurately depicts the devastating effects of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and '40s. Zusammenfassung 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. using the children's first-person accounts as well as period illustrations and photographs! the book accurately depicts the devastating effects of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and '40s.

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Authors Kate Connell
Publisher National Geographic Society
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 8 to 12
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.09.2004
 
EAN 9780792269038
ISBN 978-0-7922-6903-8
No. of pages 40
Dimensions 178 mm x 229 mm x 3 mm
Series I Am American
I Am American
Subjects Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics
Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools

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