Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Yearling BooksISBN-13:9780517880944ISBN-10:517880946UPC:9780517880944Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:History, Social Topics, School & EducationBook Topic:United States, Emigration & ImmigrationSize:9.17 x 8.02 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC7P8NWMB1
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yearling BooksISBN-13:9780517880944ISBN-10:517880946UPC:9780517880944Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:History, Social Topics, School & EducationBook Topic:United States, Emigration & ImmigrationSize:9.17 x 8.02 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC7P8NWMB1
* Jerry Stanley was born in Highland Park, Michigan in 1941. When he was seventeen years old, he joined the air force and was stationed in California, where he has lived ever since. * Once out of the air force, Jerry went to college, during which time he supported himself as a rock-'n'-roll drummer on the weekends. He received both his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona. *...
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