Hoping for Rain: The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler (I Am American)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0792269039
ISBN 13
9780792269038
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
40
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. 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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
