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

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

Author	: Jerry Stanley
File Size	: 47,7 Mb
Publisher	: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Language	: English
Release Date	: 26 November 2014
ISBN	: 9780307792471
Pages	: 96 pages

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Children of the Dust Bowl The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley Book PDF 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.

Children of the Dust Bowl The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley

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