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

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$11.60 - $19.96
UPC:
9780517880944
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1992-12-21
Release Date:
1993-07-13
Author:
Jerry Stanley
Language:
english
Edition:
1st

Product Overview

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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