Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

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

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yearling

Release: July 13, 1993

ISBN: 0517880946

ISBN 13: 9780517880944

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

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Yearling

Release: July 13, 1993

ISBN: 0517880946

ISBN 13: 9780517880944

More books from Jerry Stanley

I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Frontier Merchants: Lionel & Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers Who Settled the West

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Cowboys & Longhorns: A Portrait of the Long Drive

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?