Kate Connell

Hoping for Rain

The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler

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Like many farmers living in the Great Plains during the 1930s, the Bucklers are ravaged by months of dust storms and drought. Out of desperation, they travel West with their children, Patty and Earl, in hopes of finding new prosperity. Through letters and diary entries written by the Buckler children, readers witness the disaster of the Dust Bowl and the countless days spent wishing for an end to the drought - and their hunger. As they travel across the country, young Earl searches for work so he can help provide for the family. using the children's first-person accounts as well as period illustrations and photographs, the book accurately dep… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7922-6903-8
EAN: 9780792269038
Produktnummer: 9349080
Verlag: National Geographic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 40 S.
Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.
Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 12 J.

Über den Autor

Kate Connell is a children’s book author who has written several books for National Geographic, including Hoping for Rain: The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler, Servant to Abigail Adams: The Early American Adventures of Hannah Cooper, and Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray?: A Family Divided by the Civil War.