Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
- ISBN-10
- 0307792471
- ISBN-13
- 9780307792471
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-26
- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Jerry Stanley
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.
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