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
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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9780307792471
ISBN-13 : 0307792471
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by : Jerry Stanley

Download or read book Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp written by Jerry Stanley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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