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9780517880944
Children of the Dust Bowl The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
by Stanley, Jerry
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- Condition: Very Good
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Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780517880944
- ISBN: 0517880946
- Publication Date: 1993
- Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
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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. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) "Booklist."Stanley, Jerry is the author of 'Children of the Dust Bowl The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp', published 1993 under ISBN 9780517880944 and ISBN 0517880946.
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