dust storms

In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm, sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.

"Offers 12 different views on the environmental disaster that lasted for years. Each page provides information about what happened during the Dust Bowl and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images."--OCLC.

Readers learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the Dust Bowl.

"Battered, bruised, but alive, Helicity Dunlap rides out a hurricane in the Bolivar Peninsula Lighthouse in Texas. She somehow manages to keep herself safe and to even rescue a lost dog in the process. After a day in the hospital, she and her mom and Sam make the two-day drive back to Western Michigan. Much to her dismay, Helicity ends up in the spotlight--first in a good way after surviving the hurricane and rescuing the dog--and then social media turns on her and she finds herself in the eye of a completely different kind of storm. She decides to accept an offer to be interviewed about her experience in Texas by a reporter who followed her story. They meet up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the annual International Hot Air Balloon Festival, where Helicity delights in her first ride in a lighter-than-air balloon when disaster strikes. A severe dust storm--a haboob--typical of the area erupts while Helicity is aloft. How will the pilot navigate this . . . storm?"--OCLC.

Contains three story paths which allow the reader to explore the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer. Includes a time line and resources for further study.

Examines the experience of six families and Great Plains communities affected by the dust storms of the Depression. Draws on the memories of those who survived black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. In support of the Common Core Learning Standards. (CCLS).

Presents a discussion of dust storms, covering how, when, and where they form, the damage that can be caused by them, and what one can do to prepare for them.

Recounts the experiences of six families and they communities as they struggle to survive the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Great Depression.

Provides a brief description, through the story of one family, of the Dust Bowl, a series of dust storms that forced hundreds of thousands of families to leave their homes and farms and migrate away from the Great Plains area of the United States between 1930 and 1939.

Photographs and simple text explain how wind can stir sand, dust, or topsoil into furious clouds that travel hundreds of miles across deserts, prairies, and oceans.