Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas, 1935
by Katelan Janke • Book 29 of the Dear America Series
Fourteen-year-old Katelan Janke writes this exciting and harrowing tale of Grace... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2002
Word Count 36,495
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 990L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 64752, 6.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Juvenile fiction
- Diaries
- Depressions
- Depressions--1929--Texas--Fiction
- Family life--Texas--Fiction
- Dust storms
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
- 1929
- Texas--History--1846-1950--Fiction
- Family life
- Dust storms--Fiction
- Farm life--Texas--Fiction
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General
- Texas
- Depressions--1929--Texas--Juvenile fiction
- Farm life
- 1846-1950
- Diaries--Fiction
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