Children of the Dust Bowl: the True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp |
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| Author:
| Stanley, Jerry |
| ISBN: | 978-0-517-88094-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Publisher: | Random House Children's Books
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| Imprint: | Yearling |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.99 |
Book Description:
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Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.