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.

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.

The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.

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