Survival in the Storm
The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
About this book
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?
Subjects
- depressions
- diaries
- dust bowl era, 1931-1939
- dust storms
- family life
- farm life
- fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction