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Children of the Dust Bowl : The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
AUTHOR
Stanley, Jerry 
ILLUSTRATOR
 
SERIES
 
TYPE
Nonfiction 
AGE
Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11 
READABILITY
6.7 
PAGES
85 p.  
KEYWORDS
 
CATEGORIES
JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / General 
SUBJECTS
Depressions, 20th century, History, Southwestern States, Droughts, History, 20th century, 1929, Great Plains, Depressions, 1929, Southwestern States, Arvin, California, Education, Children of migrant laborers 
PUBLISHER
Random House Childrens Books, 1993 
$9.34
Retail $10.99

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Paperback
ISBN 9780517880944
Publisher Summary
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.

Describes the plight of the migrant workers from the Dust Bowl in California during the Depression who were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children
 
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