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

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

By Jerry Stanley
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The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item.
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Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992

Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992

Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992

Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992

Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992

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.