The journal of C.J. Jackson : a Dust Bowl migrant / by William Durbin.
Material type:
TextSeries: My name is AmericaPublication details: New York : Scholastic, 2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: 169 p. : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN: - 0439153069
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Droughts -- Oklahoma -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Dust storms -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction
- Dust storms -- Oklahoma -- Oklahoma Panhandle -- Juvenile fiction
- Migrant labor -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- California -- Juvenile fiction
- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | My name Durbin | Available | 33111003550189 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In another compelling entry from criticially-acclaimed author William Durbin, we meet C.J. Jackson, a young farmer whose family is forced to abandon their farm and seek a new life in California.
April 10, 1935
The dust has been blowing bad for several years in a row now. And with crop failures coming back to back like they have, hundreds of families have lost their farms. A Monday never passes without Sheriff Jake Allison posting a notice of foreclosure at the Boise City courthouse. Times are so rough, that when they hold an auction to sell a place, the only people that show up are the banks and the insurance companies. Nobody else has a nickel.
C.J. Jackson is a young man living through one of the most tragic times in the Dust Bowl of an America fraught with political, economic, and environmental problems. In this intense journal of life in the Oklahoma panhandle, C.J. tells it like it is-and it is bad.
"C.J. Jackson is a fictional character, created by the author, and his journal and its epilogue are works of fiction."--Copyright page.
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.