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Format:
Book
Title:
The great American Dust Bowl
ISBN:
9780547815503

9781328740878
Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Physical Description:
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
General Note:
The illustrations of this book are pen & ink with digital paint.--Page facing title page.
Summary:
A speck of dust is a tiny thing. In fact, five of them could fit into the period at the end of this sentence. On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions of these specks of dust to form a duster -- a savage storm on America's high southern plains. The sky turned black; sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars; trains derailed; and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow, people got lost in the gloom and suffocated ... and that was just the beginning.
Reading Level:
GN860L lexile

Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 2 (easy) Lexile.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.60 6.0 quiz: 61389.

Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades 5.1 0.5 quiz: 160794.

Accelerated Reader MG 5.1 .5.
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