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Connell, Kate.
HOPING FOR RAIN : THE DUST BOWL ADVENTURE OF PATTY AND EARL BUCKLER
Washington, DC : National Geographic, 2004.
IL 3-6
ISBN 0792269039
Have you heard of the Dust Bowl?  It's not a football game.  It happened a long time ago in an area of the United States known as the Great Plains.  Oklahoma was the hardest hit.  During the 1930s, there was very little rain and most of the crops failed.  Then the winds started and whipped the dirt from the fields around so that there were huge dust storms.  Dirt and dust was everywhere.  It was in people's homes, their clothes and even their food.  This is the story of one family and how they survived the hard times.
SUBJECTS:     Great Plains - History.
                        Depressions, 1929.
                        Dust storms -- Great Plains.
                        Droughts -- Great Plains.
                        Farm life -- Great Plains.

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