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Dear America: Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards

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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!!!!!

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!

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!

Survival in the Storm is one of the best books that I've ever read! The author speaks with such feeling that you feel you are Grace, you feel as though the same things that happened to her are happening to you! The good and the bad! You learn so much about the time! You learn that there WERE a few rain showers during the dust bowl. They were not powerful enough to soak into the ground though! I deeply recommend this book to anyone and everyone!!!

Survival in the Storm was the best Dear America book I have ever read. I like it so much that I've read it three times! It tells about twelve-year-old Grace Edwards, who lives on a Texas farm during the Dust Bowl. It's sad when Grace's friend Helen moves to California, and when Ruth's (Grace's seven-year-old sister) best friend dies of dust pneumonia. But there are joyful parts too, like when Sadie, a girl who was always mean to Grace and Helen, becomes friends with them when she moves to California (she wrote Grace a letter and apologized, and she was in the same migrant camp as Helen.) I recommend this book to kids and adults.

This book is the best! I read it in less than a day.I just could'nt put it down.This has lots of action and keeps you going. It also helps me understand the hardships people had during the Great Depression especially in the texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl.I would recommend everyone to read this book!

This is a touching little book about a young girl growing up in the high plains of Texas in the dust bowl days. My mother grew up on a small west Texas farm at the same time and her story was very similar. This is well written and I hope the young author continues her writing.

I got this book for a Christmas present. I love it and have all ready read it two times!! Now I want to learn even more about the dust bowl. Some parts of this book almost made me cry it was so real.

I have read almost all of the Dear America books and this is the best one by far. I love how Grace and Helen are forever friends because I have a friend just like that. I also like the little sister Ruth and the funny things she is always doing. The dust storms were terrible and scary. Survival in the Storm is a wonderful book to read.

Survival in the storm, by Katelan Janke, was a good book. It takes place in Dalhart,Texas in 1935 during the Dust Bowl. It shows how hard it is for all the families during that time.
I could not put this book down because I liked it. I would reccommend it to 6th and 8th graders because you learn a lot about history. This book goes targets this age group.
This book was almost as good as the Harry Potter books. I say it needs a little more adventure in it. If you want to find out more you need to read the book.