Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
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- Synopsis
- 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Copyright:
- 1992
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307792471
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780517880944
- Publisher:
- Random House Children's Books
- Date of Addition:
- 11/26/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Jerry Stanley
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Grade Levels:
- Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade, Ninth grade
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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