Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp |
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| Authors: | Stanley, Jerry |
| Lexile: | 1120, |
| Publisher: | Random House Children's Books |
| BISAC/Subject: | JNF050000, JNF025210, JNF051160 |
| ISBN: | 9780307792471, Related ISBNs: 0307792471, 0517587823, 0517880946, 9780307792471, 9780517587829 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 96, |
| Audience: | Children/juvenile |
Synopsis: 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.
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