- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Press (Nov 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0439215994
- ISBN-13: 978-0439215992
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#694,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Books > Children's Books > Ages 9-12 > Series > Historical > Dear America
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8-Grace, 12, details the hardships she endures with her family and neighbors. She describes how they must scrub their house constantly, knead bread in a drawer, and breathe through damp handkerchiefs during a "duster." Even graver dangers abound: dust pneumonia, plagues of jackrabbits, and the loss of livelihood for farmers. Most compelling are the tiny joys that make life bearable: a baby jackrabbit, a dress lovingly created from a floral flour sack. An epilogue that provides a lively summary of the rest of their lives has more plot than most of this episodic novel. The winner of an Arrow Book Club/Dear America Student Writing Contest, the 15-year-old author interviewed several people who lived through the Dust Bowl. One small error appears in the notes: The Dust Bowl caused one of the United States's largest migrations, but at one million people, it is not the largest. As an example of what a teen can achieve when she explores her neighborhood and nations past, Survival succeeds. Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997) provides a more poetic view of this period. Combine those two books with Milton Meltzer's Driven from the Land (Benchmark, 2000), Jerry Stanley's Children of the Dust Bowl (Crown, 1992), Elizabeth Partridge's Restless Spirit (Viking, 1998), and William Durbin's The Journal of C. J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant (Scholastic, 2002) for a unit about one of the country's worst ecological disasters.
Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 4-8. In a strong Dear America series book, Grace Edwards uses her journal to tell the story of a year (1935) in the Texas Panhandle town of Dalhart during the days of the Dust Bowl. Centered on a 12-year-old's perspective of home and school, chores and friends, Grace's diary reveals in graphic detail what life was like when farms failed, families went hungry, and children died from dust pneumonia because no rain fell. Old photographs and advertisements, part of the Historical Notes section, add further detail to a rather depressing, but fictionalized, authentically flavored account of a significant portion of American history, which is made more remarkable by the fact that Janke was only 15 years old when the novel was published. The story grew from a selection she wrote for the 1998 Arrow Book Club/Dear America Student Writing Contest. Frances Bradburn
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Survival in the Storm,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dear America: Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Hardcover)
I have read the book Survival in the Storm / The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards by Katelan Janke. This a very good book.It's about a girl that livesin Delheart Texas and lives during the Great Depression.She goes tru 'Black Sunday' which is the biggest reported dust storm in anccent history!!!!!
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The Bad Times,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dear America: Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Hardcover)
The book Survival In The Storm is about a 12 year old girl named Grace Edwards.Grace learns to battle the hard times like The Great Depression ,the horrible sand and very poorness.Grace writes in her journal almost every day,she writes about every thing that happens in her day.Grace has afriend named helen,helen and Grace go to there favorite plac all the time when Helen's over.This is a great book!
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THE HARDSHIPS OF GROWING UP DURING THE GREAT DEPRESION,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dear America: Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Hardcover)
In the story Survival in the Storm a young girl named Gracie Edwards is growing up during the Great Depression. She lives on a farm with her mother, father, and younger sister. Her best friends name is Helen. Every morning Gracie and her sister get up and walk to school. Sometimes the dust is so bad there dad has to drive them to school. Gracie's dad has planted wheat but it is so dry that during a duster (a dust storm)it keeps coming up. Many people are moving to California because they cant get anything to grow. The richest people in town the Mcall's are lowning out money and land to people in town. They're children who Gracie and her younger sister go to school with are very snobby. Helen's family all of a sudden have to move to California. Gracie told her friend to write as soon as possible.A few weeks later Gracie's mom start working at the local hospital. Gracie goes with her to help the people. In a few days Gracie goes into a room and sees her little sisters best friend lying in a bed with a case of dust pnominia. A few days later she dies and her little sister is very sad. Gracie finally gets a letter from her friend Helen. Sadie Mcall the mean girl at school and her family all of a sudden are missing. She found out the bank went bankrupcy and they lost all of there money. They are staying at the same camp as Helen. A new girl shows up at school and all the boys keep taking her doll. The next day her house catches on fire and her doll burns. Gracie's little sister makes a new doll for her self that isn't that pretty and gives her nice one to the little girl before she moves to California. A doctor that travels from hospilal to hospital stops at the one Helen's mom and her work at for 2 weeks and Gracie becomes really good friends with the doctors son. On the day he leaves he gives her a box of ststionairy and his adress.It really is a great book about the hard times people went through. It will make you thankful for everything you have!
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