The Dirty Thirties: Documenting the Dust Bowl
Author - Sean Price
Publisher - Heinemann Raintree Classroom
Reading Level - 3.6
Interest Level 4-7
Read this book to learn about the dust storms that swept across the Midwestern United States during the 1930s. Read about the Dust Bowl immigrants who left their farms in search of a better life in California. Learn how people like Woody Guthrie and Dorothea Lange documented the people and places affected by the Dust Bowl. Background knowledge of the subject matter is incorporated into the text.
Ava's Mann
Author - Rick Bragg
Publisher - Vintage
Reading Level - 6.1
Interest Level 7-Adult
Bragg writes about his grandfather Charlie
Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an impact on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg
reconstructs the life of a roofer who kept food on his
family's table through the worst of the Great Depression; a moonshiner
who drank exactly one pint for every gallon he sold; and a fighter who could sit for hours with a baby in the crook of his arm.
Children of the Great Depression
Author - Glen Elder
Publisher - Westview Press
Reading Level - 6.8
Interest Level - YA-Adult
ISBN - 9780813333427
This book follows 167 individuals born in 1920–1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of his subjects over two generations.
The Dust Bowl
Author - Ronald Reis
Publisher - Chelsea House Publishing
Reading Level - 6
Interest Level 5-8
ISBN - 9780791097373
Examines the factors that led to the Dust Bowl conditions, how individuals coped with the effects, and what can be learned from that human error and the misuse of land. Features full-color photographs, illustrations, sidebars, a chronology, a timeline, a glossary, and a list of resources for further study.
The Dust Bowl Through the Lens
Author - Martin Sandler
Publisher - Walker Books for Young Readers
Reading Level - 8
Interest Level 6-8
ISBN - 9780802795489
The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and
disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nation's history turned
more than 100 million acres of fertile land almost completely to dust.
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to seek new homes and
opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay
and battle nature to save their land. These terrible events
from the Dust Bowl contributed to the Great Depression, which impacted
the entire country.
Children of the Dust Bowl
Author - Jerry Stanley
Publisher - Crown
Reading Level - 6.8
Interest Level 5-8
This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. These children were labeled "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
Children of the Great Depression
Author - Russell Freedman
Publisher - Sandpiper
Reading Level - 7.5
Interest Level 5-8
The
story of the Great Depression as told by American children creates a wonderful photo-essay book. Using letters, diaries,
memoirs, first-hand accounts coupled with dramatic black-and-white
photographs, the struggle for survival is made clear. Stories are told
from migrant farm laborers, middle-class urban youth, boxcar children,
and young people who learned what life is like with unemployed parents,
little food, poor housing, and a lack of education.
Climbing Out of the Great Depression: The New Deal
Author - Sean Price
Publisher - Heinemann Raintree Library
Reading Level - 3.5
Interest Level 5-8
When the stock market crashed, Americans were in trouble. Jobs were very hard to find. Many people lost their homes and had no choice but to live in shacks. The newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt had a lot of work to do! He came up with a series of work programs called the New Deal. This book shares these programs and how they put America back to work. Background knowledge of the subject matter is incorporated into the text.
The Great Depression
Author - William Dudley
Publisher - Greenhaven Print on Demand
Publishing Date - 2007
Interest Level - 7-12
ISBN - 9780737712537
This book presents
information on the Great Depression by critically exploring multiple
political cartoons from the era.
The Great Depression
Author - Elaine Landau
Publisher - Children's Press
Reading Level - 7.3
Interest Level 5-8
ISBN - 9780531187678
This book describes the Great Depression, the factors that contributed to it, and the steps taken to reverse it. It discusses the stock market crash of 1929, the drought that followed in 1931, and the westward migration of those looking for work. Then it explains President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and the economic boost provided by America's involvement in World War II.
The Great Depression: A Nation in Distress
Author - Janet Beyer
Publisher - Discovery Enterprises
Reading Level - 9
Interest Level 5-8
ISBN - 9781878668462
The Great Depression brought devastation to America's economy and its people. Excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, letters, and historic photographs give a picture of the suffering brought on by the economy's breakdown.
The Great Depression: 1929-1938
Author - Tim McNeese
Publisher - Chelsea House Publishers
Reading Level - 6.7
Interest Level 5-8
ISBN - 9781604133578
Fear gripped the
nation. By the end of the 1930s, the United States had experienced at
least 10 years of hard times, unemployment, and radical change that
redefined the role of the federal government. The country had relied on
its new president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to boost the economy with his
ambitious New Deal programs, but many questioned the success of his
policies. Readers can explore for themselves the effectiveness of
Roosevelt's policies.