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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.
3) Dust storm!
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Survivor diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
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A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
7) Killer dust
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2003]
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This author's latest creation sends Em Hansen to Florida, where she investigates a strange dust cloud supposedly arriving from Africa. Before it's all over, NASA, the FBI, and her new boyfriend are involved.
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TransDimensional hunter volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Battered, bruised, but alive, Helicity Dunlap rides out a hurricane in the Bolivar Peninsula Lighthouse in Texas. She somehow manages to keep herself safe and to even rescue a lost dog in the process. After a day in the hospital, she and her mom and Sam make the two-day drive back to Western Michigan. They leave Andy and their dad behind as Andy is finally going to get the help he needs in an addiction rehabilitation facility. Much to her dismay,...
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