Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl cover

Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl

Author: Marrin, Albert

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.4
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 24174
Points per Word 0.000165
Page Count 128
Points per Page 0.03125

Description

In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of American history.