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Gr 5 Up—Brown once again dives into American history, this time telling the story of the Dust Bowl in his first graphic novel. Starting with a tale of a terrifying 200-mile-long duster in 1935, he works back to explain what caused the devastation and its decadelong effects on the economy, the land, and the people. Brown's illustrations bring these facts to life, showing the severity of the tragedy; it's one thing to read about globs of mud falling from the sky like rain, it's quite another to see them painfully pelting a herd...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

“A speck of dust is a tiny thing.” This simple opening line creates a perfect counterpoint to the chaos pictured on the page: a terrifying dust cloud rears up like a creature out of a nightmare, scattering birds and jackrabbits in its wake. It’s a portent of things to come in this bleak yet compelling glimpse at the Dirty Thirties. After a lengthy drought and rampant overplanting, the once-fertile soil found across the Great Plains states had become “pulverized earth” by the early 1930s. High...Log In or Sign Up to Read More