Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
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Book Info
Author
Jerry Stanley
Word Count
21,250 words
based on page count
Pages
85 pages
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Edition Publisher
Yearling
Edition Publish Date
1992-01-01
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0517880946
ISBN-13: 9780517880944
Description
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.
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
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