Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2013]., Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: E MAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Primary Call No: 631.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An introduction to growing crops, the use of crop sprayers, and how farm machinery is important to farmers.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Benchmark Books Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.
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1989, Juvenile, Lucent Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: World disastersSummary Note: Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of a part of the Great Plains, causing great hardship to farmers.
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c2009, Primary, Capstone Press Call No: 978 .032 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: You choose booksSummary Note: "Describes the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer"--Provided by publisher.
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c2009., Primary, Capstone Press Call No: 978 .032 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: You choose booksSummary Note: "Describes the people and events of the U.S. Dust Bowl. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a farmer, a migrant worker, and a government photographer"--Provided by publisher.
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c2002., Pre-adolescent, Enslow Publishers Call No: 978 .032 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the conditions that led to the severe drought and terrible dust storms that destroyed crops and farmland during the 1930s and shows how some families managed to survive with help from the federal and state governments.
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c2005., Juvenile, Bearport Call No: 363.34 929 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: X-treme disasters that changed AmericaSummary Note: An illustrated description of the dust storms that blew across the American Midwest in the 1930's.
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2009., Juvenile, Walker & Co. Call No: 973.917022 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
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c2005., Juvenile, compass Point Books Call No: 978 .033 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: We the peopleSummary Note: Discusses the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s when dust storms raged across the heartland of the United States, causing damage that reached from North Dakota to Texas, explains how a combination of bad farming practices and drought caused the deadly conditions, and looks at how people and the government responded to the crisis.
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c2004., Clarion Books Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Table of contents
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2011, Juvenile, Walker & Co. Call No: Non Fiction NON BAG Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
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2002., Primary, Heinemann Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Picture the pastSummary Note: An introduction to what life was like during the Dust Bowl years on farms on the Great Plains.
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-- Book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei1996., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B GAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
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c2005., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books Call No: 551.51 13 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents full-color illustrated drawings that describes what dust is, the different kinds of dust such as pollen, house dust, dirt from the farmer's plow, dust storms, fires, and ash from volcanoes.
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-- Suprising story of dustc2005, Preschool, Greenwillow Books Call No: 551.51 13 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explains the origins of dust, what dust is, and how dust shows up in the world.
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2010., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: 664 .109 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Contributor biographical information Summary Note: Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century to produce ethanol.
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c2009., Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books Call No: 978 .032 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Examines the causes of the Dust Bowl, discusses its effects, and provides primary source quotes and photographs.