The Great American Dust Bowl cover

The Great American Dust Bowl

Author: Brown, Don

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.1
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 2619
Points per Word 0.000191
Page Count 80
Points per Page 0.00625

Description

On a clear, warm Sunday, a wild wind whipped up millions of specks of dust to form a duster, a savage storm, on America's high southern plains. Sand and dirt fell like snow, people got lost and suffocated, and that was just the beginning.