"Author James Markert delivers another stunningly beautiful novel full of mystery and magic set during the Dust Bowl" --Provided by publisher.

In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm, sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.

Ten-year-old Orry Jenkins is sick and tired of the dust. The year is 1935 and Kansas hasn't gotten enough rain in years. Instead of rainstorms, they get dust storms. One day, Orry and his little stepsister go outside to play. They're far from home when a huge dust storm comes up. Stranded alone on the plains, the children must find a way to survive the terrible black blizzard.

Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.

Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935.

As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.

Provides information about what life was like in the Dust Bowl Era through imagined first person narrative accounts in the voices of Native Americans, struggling families, the working poor, and more.

Discusses the causes and effects of the disastrous dust storms that hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.