Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

by Jerry Stanley

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About this book

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.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780517880944
ISBN10	0517880946
Series/Work	OL2752467W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Yearling
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

Children, juvenile literature Children of migrant laborers Depressions Depressions, 1929, juvenile literature Droughts Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Education History Juvenile literature Middle west Middle west, history Migrant labor Migrant labor, united states

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