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I will send rainRae Meadows

I will send rain

2016272 pages
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"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulledin different directions. Annie's fragile young son, Fred, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong…

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Editions

5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2017
    St. Martin's Griffin · 272 pages · 9781250145932
  • Audiobook · English
    Blackstone Pub · 9781504766449
  • Other · English · 2016
    Henry Holt and Co. · 256 pages · 9781627794268
  • Other · English · 2016
    Holt & Company, Henry · 9781627794275
  • Other · English · 2016
    Thorndike Press · 368 pages · 9781410492173
HistoryDust Bowl Era, 1931-1939Farm lifeDroughtsRural familiesFictionOklahoma, fictionFiction, family life