Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl
by Albert Marrin
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2009
Word Count 24,174
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1040L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 132461, 4 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Droughts
- 20th century
- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Disasters
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Juvenile literature
- Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Depressions--1929--Great Plains--Juvenile literature
- Depressions
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- History
- Farmers
- Dust storms
- Social conditions
- Farm life
- Farm life--Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
- Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Droughts--Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Farmers--Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Great Plains
- Dust storms--Great Plains--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- 1929
- Lists With This Book
- Living Through Big Changes
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Awards & Distinctions 2
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2010
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2009
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