# Dust to Eat

**Author:** Michael L. Cooper
**Grade range:** Grades 4–10
**First published:** 2004
**Page count:** 104
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780618154494`
**ISBN-10:** `0618154493`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dust-to-eat-drought-and-depression-in-the-1930s
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Cooper takes readers through a tumultuous period in American history, chronicling the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California on fabled Route 66. Includes endnotes, bibliography, Internet resources, and index. Archival photos.

## Where this book is assigned

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