Monthly Archives: January 2019

Summary

In the book Survival in the Storm, by Katelan Janke, the main character Grace is living in Dalhart, Texas. It is the year of 1935 and in Dalhart there has been no rain for 4 years, which created lots of dust storms, which is literally a big cloud of dangerous, windy dust that slams into people’s houses. It also caused dust pneumonia, which many people died from due to the dirt/dust that clogged their lungs, in this book Grace tells you about her experience with the dust storm and how it affected her life.

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In the book Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, Stanley’s brother goes to France to fight in WW1. Stanley is left alone with his mad and explosive father and when his father does something truly terrible, he decides to go find his brother and enlists in the army to join him. He trains dogs to be messengers, but along the way he hits some trouble, at one point he feels so down that he just wants to go home, and although he feels like this sometimes, everything turns out to be OK in the end.