When the Sky Rained Dust edition by Patrick Dearen Children eBooks
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When the Sky Rained Dust edition by Patrick Dearen Children eBooks
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When the Sky Rained Dust edition by Patrick Dearen Children eBooks Reviews
Patrick Dearen's novel about the Dust Bowl and Great Depression received the 2006 R. C. Crane Award for best creative work on West Texas, presented by West Texas Historical Association.
The year 1934 was the middle of the Great Depression and if you lived in the middle of the Dust Bowl in Central Texas like fourteen-year-old Josh Watson, you knew what hard times were. As Josh watched his family struggle to make a living on the small farm that his father had mortgaged in better times for money to improve his land, he wondered why they were hanging on. It wasn't going to rain, and if it did, what good would it do the Watsons and their neighbors? Their land was nothing but bare cracked earth except the little garden his mother watered everyday, carrying water in metal buckets from the well. When Josh's friend Shan left after her father sold his land, the young boy became angry at his own father. Why was the man so stubborn? There was nothing left to fight for. Dearen's portrait of the Depression and the Dust Bowl and the almost inhuman struggle required to survive is so real one chokes on the black dust in the air, sees the ugly cracked earth without crop or weed, and hears the awful lowing of the starving cattle. A slice-of-life written in sparse prose as suits the subject.
Patrick Dearen's "When the Sky Rained Dust" is a compelling look into the experience of the everyday family in Texas during the Great Depression at the time of the Dust Bowl. Josh Watson and his family struggle to survive and to hold onto their property. Their neighbors and friends are all in the same position and still do what they can to help one another. The story is one that played out in the lives of real people and Dearen has thoroughly captured the feel and sound of the time.
Dearen successfully drops his readers into the world of a fourteen-year-old Central Texas boy, Josh Watson, his good friend Shan, his family and neighbors, and the readers is soon engrossed in a story that keeps one reading to the very end. The reader will wish, in fact, for a different ending, but Dearen has stayed true to the harsh reality of the situation and not given us the "Disney" ending. It is a story familiar to anyone who grew up in Texas during the Great Depression or any who convinced survivors to tell their stories.
"When the Sky Rained Dust" would be an easy read for anyone studying this era and will be especially inviting for a teacher to use as a classroom tool. The way the author paints a picture and allows his reader into the story will keep the audience wanting more. This novel would be helpful for a Texas history teacher, but should certainly not be overlooked by the American history teacher looking to personalize the study of the Depression era.
The book would benefit only from the addition of a bibliography of further readings to help the interested reader find more information on an age-appropriate level. That being said, this reader read the book in one sitting and wished to learn more about the Watson family and their lives after the Depression.
Great book about West Texas by one of my favorite authors.
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