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
Author: Jerry Stanley
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0307792471

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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
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Jerry Stanley
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-26 - Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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. Ost
Children of the Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 85
Authors: Jerry Stanley
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01 - Publisher: Turtleback

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Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp
The Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: David Booth
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd

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A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.
The Great American Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 85
Authors: Don Brown
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Crash
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Marc Favreau
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-10 - Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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The incredible true story of how real people weathered one of the most turbulent periods in American history—the Great Depression—and emerged triumphant. Fr