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

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

Jerry Stanley
    • 4.3 • 16 Ratings
    • $7.99
    • $7.99

Publisher 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.

GENRE
Kids
RELEASED
1993
July 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
96
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Children's Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
43.9
MB

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