United States History, Children - Reference & Study Aids, United States - People & Places, Children - Family & Growing Up, Children - Business & Careers
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Overview
It is the 1930s, and the United States is reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. In the southern Great Plains, a combination of bad farming practices and drought has caused the rich farmland to dry up and blow away. People call this devastated area the Dust Bowl. Will you: Stay on your farm and try to survive? OR... Leave the farm to try your luck elsewhere? OR... Document the horrors of the Dust Bowl as a government photographer?Editorials
Children's Literature -
Interactive books allow the reader to choose the ending. In this book readers are presented with alternate endings for situations that confronted individuals and families during America's "Great Dust Bowl." Imagine that you and your family are living on a farm in the southern Great Plains in the early 1930s, the same time as the Great Depression. A drought has caused many crops to fail and the dust storms are becoming more frequent and intense. Still, giving up your farm and everything that you own is not easy. Do you stay on the farm and hope for rain or do you leave everything and start anew somewhere else? Still another option: do you take a government job? Each decision produces different results. In all, there are three story paths with fifty-three choices and nineteen various endings. This difficult period in our country's history is explained in a unique and intriguing format that involves the reader. The numerous photographs add to the realism. This intriguing and well-written book is part of the "An Interactive History Adventure" series. Reviewer: Denise DaleyBook Details
Published
June 12, 2026
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781429634557