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

Type

Book

Authors

Jerry Stanley

ISBN 10

0606057862

ISBN 13

9780606057868

Tags

Education & Reference, General

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. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) Booklist. - from Amzon

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