Stories in Time: Library Book Grade 5 Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

Price 7.91 - 10.99 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780517880944


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.