Living Voices Journey from the Dust bibliography1
Journey from the Dust bibliography
FICTION
Elementary
The Babe and I
David Adler
The Christmas Promise
Susan Bartoletti
The Dust Bowl
David Booth
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
C. Coco De Young
The Bittersweet Time
Jean Sparks Ducey
Leah’s Pony
Elizabeth Friedrich
Blue Willow
Doris Gates
Drylongso
Virginia Hamilton
The 1930s: Directions
Dorothy and Tom Hoobler
Saving Strawberry Farm
Deborah Hopkinson
The All-I’ll–Ever-Want Christmas Doll
Patricia McKissack
Picking Peas for a Penny
Angela Shelf Medearis
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Margaree King Mitchell
Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression
Marissa Moss
The Storm in the Barn (graphic novel)
Matt Phelan
Treasures in the Dust
Tracey Porter
Jimmy Crack Corn
Candice Ransom
Angels in the Dust
Margot Theis Raven
The Hard-Times Jar
Ethel Footman Smothers
Chig and the Second Spread
Gwenyth Swain
Kit Saves the Day: The American Girls Collection
Valerie Tripp
Working Cotton
Sherley Anne Williams
The Luck of the Buttons
Anne Ylvisaker
Intermediate
Hard times: a story of the great Depression
Nancy Antle
Tracks
Clayton Bess
Purely Rosie Pearl
Patricia Cochrane
Saving Grace
Priscilla Cummings
Nowhere to Call Home
Under the Same Sky
Cynthia DeFelice
The Journal of C.J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant
William Durbin
The Truth Abtou Sparrows
Mariam Hale
The Amazing Thinking Machine
Dennis Haseley
Hard Times for Jake Smith
Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Hitch
Jeanette Ingold
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
Katelan Janke
All the earth, thrown to the sky
Joe Lansdale
Christmas After All: the Diary of Minnie Swift
Kathryn Lasky
The Coming Home Cafe
Gayle Pearson
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
Cat Running
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A Time of Troubles
Pieter von Raven
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Letters from a Mill Town Girl
Elizabeth Winthrop
Secondary
Whose Names Are Unknown
Sanora Babb
Following the Harvest
Fred Harris
The Golden Bowl
Feike Feikema
Stormy Weather
Paulette Jiles
The Miner’s Daughter
Gretchen Laskas
The Grapes of Wrath
In Dubious Battle
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
REFERENCE
Elementary
The Great Depression
Michael Burgan
Children of the Dust Days
Karen Coombs
Dust to Eat
Michael Cooper
Black Tuesday: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Barbara Feinberg
Voices of the Dust Bowl
Sherry Garland
The Great Depression
R.G. Grant
The Great Depression
Melissa McDaniel
The 1930s
Don Nardo
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four-Term President
Michael Schuman
The Great Depression
The New Deal: Pulling America Out of the Great Depression
R. Conrad Stein
Born and Bred in the Great Depression
Jonah Winter
Intermediate
Grand Coulee Dam: the biggest man-made structure of all time
fact-filled publicity from the 1940’s
The Crash of 1929
Nathan Aaseng
The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains
Tricia Andryszewski
Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories
Beth Atkin
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Karen Blumenthal
A Migrant Family
Larry Brimner
Why Banks Fail
Amy Sterling Casil
Progressivism, the Great Depression and the New Deal
Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
The Great Depression
Jacqueline Farrell
Children of the Great Depression
Russell Freedman
How the Stock Market Works
Kathy Furgang
The Century for Young People
Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster
An Album of the Great Depression
William Katz
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl
Albert Marrin
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Milton Meltzer
“We had everything but money:” love and sharing saw America’s families through the Great Depression
ed. Deb Mulvey
How a Recession Works
Jeanne Nagle
The Great Depression
Don Nardo
How a Depression Works
Jason Porterfield
A Multicultural Portrait of the Great Depression
Susan Rensberger
The Dust Bowl through the Lens: How Photography Revealed & Helped Remedy a National Disaster
Martin Sandler
The Great Depression and the New Deal: America’s Economic Collapse and Recovery
Anne Schraff
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the Children at Weedpatch Camp
Jerry Stanley
The New Deal
Gail Stewart
A Multicultural Portrait of Labor in America
Judith Woodburn
A Young People’s History of the United States, Volume 2: Class Struggle to the War on Terror
Howard Zinn
Secondary
The invisible scar
Caroline Bird
The Great Depression: an eyewitness history
David Burg
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro, editors
American Exodus: the Dust Bowl Migration & Okie Culture in California
James Gregory
A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
In the shadow of the mountain: the spirit of the CCC
Edwin Hill
A land so fair and bright: the true story of a young man’s adventures across depression America
Russ Hofvendahl
Freedom from Fear
David Kennedy
Dust Bowl Diary
Ann Marie Low
We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History
Nathaniel May and Clint Willis, editors
The Great Depression 1929-1938
Tim McNeese
Brother, can you spare a dime? The Great Depression 1929-1933
Milton Meltzer
Rising in the West: the True Story of an Okie Family
Dan Morgan
The Depression and the Urban West Coast, 1929-33
William Mullins
Grand Coulee: Harnessing a dream
Paul Pitzer
B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam
Lawney Reyes
The Seventeenth Child
Dorothy Marie Rice & Lucille Mabel Walthall Payne
Put to work: relief programs in the Great Depression
Nancy Ellen Rose
The Great DepressionL A Diary
Benjamin Roth
Fruit fields in my blood: Okie migrants in the west
Tobey Sonneman
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
Anne Whiston Spirn
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road
John Steinbeck
Hard Times: An oral history of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
T.H. Watkins
Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
FILM & VIDEO
The Dust Bowl (Ken Burns)
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)
American Experience: Riding the Rails (PBS)
Golden Lands, Working Hands
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
The Homecoming
Paper Moon
Places in the Heart
WEBSITES
Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
American Experience: Riding the Rails
Voices from the Dust Bowl
Drought in the Dust Bowl Years
The Great Depression
New Deal Network
Sliding into the Great Depression
Timelines of the Great Depression
Grand Coulee Dam Collection
Wessels Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s
American’s Great Depression
Dust Bowl Photo Collection
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
FDR’s Fireside Chats
The WPA California Folk Music Project
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
National New Deal Preservation Association
The Stock Market Crash (from The First Measured Century)
The National Center for Farmworker Health
The Farmworkers Website
The Human Rights of Migrant Workers
Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide
Youth for Human Rights
Anti-Defamation League: A World of Difference Institute Anti-Bias Education & Diversity Training
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Facing History and Ourselves
American Civil Liberties Union
Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
History Matters