Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Kids, Natural World, Disasters, School Tools, School and Education, People and Places, History
| Author: | Jerry Stanley | ISBN: | 9780307792471 |
| Publisher: | Random House Children's Books | Publication: | November 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jerry Stanley |
| ISBN: | 9780307792471 |
| Publisher: | Random House Children's Books |
| Publication: | November 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Language: | English |
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.
