Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s
by Michael L. Cooper
In his introduction, Michael L. Cooper calls the 1930s “a turning point in... read more
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 7,960
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1120L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 78030, 1 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- History
- 20th century
- Droughts
- Dust storms
- Migrant labor
- United States--History--1933-1945--Juvenile literature
- Migrant labor--California--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Depressions--1929--United States--Juvenile literature
- Dust storms--Great Plains
- 1919-1933
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Homelessness & Poverty
- California
- Droughts--Great Plains
- United States--History--1919-1933--Juvenile literature
- United States--History--1919-1933
- 1933-1945
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Depressions
- Droughts--Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- United States--History--1933-1945
- Great Plains
- New Deal, 1933-1939--Juvenile literature
- Depressions--1929
- Dust storms--Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- 1929
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