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Part 3: Unit-Related Books

TITLE COPY- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION RELATIONSHIP AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR RIGHT TO NOVEL DATE Love to Langston 2002 Lee & Lowe A collection of -Depression-era By Tony Medina Books Inc. poems by life Illustrated by R. Gregory Langston -“I Do Not like Christie Hughes that my Father explore events Much” and “Jazz or themes in his Makes me Sing” life echo feelings of Billy Joe Dust 2003 Wendy An 11-year-old Adds suspense By Arthur Slade Lamb Books boy explores the and mystery to a Jacket illustration by mysterious further view of Jonathan Barkat disappearance depression-era of others in the life Dust Bowl Survival in the Storm 2002 Scholastic Part of the -Another first By Katelan Janke Inc. “Dear America person fictional Series,” this account to novel follows compliment Out the format of a of the Dust diary as kept by -Also includes an Grace Edwards Epilogue with who lived in pictures and Texas in 1935 further historical information The Journal of C. J. 2002 Scholastic Another “Dear -Compliments the Jackson Inc. Amercia” book unit by showing By William Durbin that shows a the migration boy’s migration aspect of this from Oklahoma time period to California in -Includes a map search of work and other helpful in 1935 features in the back Bud, Not Buddy 1999 Yearling Bud searches Gives students a By Christopher Paul Curtis Books for his father in view of how the 1936 Michigan. depression affected urban areas and minority populations We Want Jobs 1993 Raintree A Pennsylvania Gives valuable By Robert J. Norrell Steck- steelworker information on Illustrated by Jan Naimo Vaughn calls for the social reforms Jones Publishers government that are action when he mentioned as finds himself government unemployed in assistance in Out 1929. of the Dust Six Days in October 2002 Atheneum -Non fiction This background By Karen Blumenthal Books for chronicle of the is crucial for my Young stock market students to Readers crash of 1929 understand the -Full of great circumstances photographs! that combined with the drought to bring Billy Joe and her neighbors to such desperate circumstances. Black Tuesday 1995 The -Non fiction Historical By Barbara Silberdick Milbrook account of the background of Feinberg Press Jazz age years depression era leading up to leading to the the stock dust bowl years market crash on October 29, 1929 -More vintage photos Sounder 1969 Harper & The classic tale Gives a view of By William H. Armstrong Rowe of a child’s love what life was like Illustrated by James Barkley Publishers for his beloved for minorities pet and/or in the rural South during this time Dust Bowl Descent 1984 University of *Amazing Provides visual By Bill Ganzel Nebraska photographs of images and Press individuals individual stories during the dust to breath life into bowl years this unit!! paired with how they look today America’s Great Disasters 2003 Harper Chapter 3 is I like the By Martin W. Sandler Collins entitled condensed format Publishers “Droughts and of this chapter Dust: Disaster for giving a quick from the look at the causes Parched of the dust bowl. Earth.” Dust to Eat 2004 Clarion Personal More Michael L. Cooper Books anecdotes and background- vintage especially the photographs fill John Steinbeck this nonfiction chapter gem. The Grapes of Wrath 1939 Penguin Classic tale of I’ll use quotes By John Steinbeck Books the destitute and try to draw Joad family connections since migrating West this novel is part in search of of the 11th grade prosperity curriculum.