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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Contributor(s): Stanley, Jerry (Author)
ISBN: 0517880946     ISBN-13: 9780517880944
Publisher: Yearling Books
OUR PRICE:   $9.89  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1993
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Emigration & Immigration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | School & Education
Dewey: 371.967
LCCN: 92000393
Lexile Measure: 1120
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 8.02" W x 9.17" (0.65 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Cultural Region - Heartland
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Geographic Orientation - California
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 6660
Reading Level: 6.8   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.