The Great American Dust Bowl - Don Brown

An award-winning author/illustrator brings the Dirty Thirties to life in this gripping graphic novel account of one of America's most catastrophic natural events. \n \nA complete visual package. --Booklist, starred review\n \nOn a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.\n \nThe 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.\n \nDon Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl.\n