Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Current price:
$10.99
Publication Date: July 13th, 1993
Publisher:
Yearling
ISBN:
9780517880944
Pages:
96
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.
Praise for Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
"The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) Booklist.